A coup in US? Unthinkable? Think again

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The US military, which has an awesome annual budget of $700 billion, is organised into different combatant formations, key being the six geographic commands, as they call them, that encircle the globe. The youngest is the Africa Command, stationed at Stuttgart, Germany. (That Command should worry you). The most interesting thing about the command structure of these combatant but independent formations is that, when it comes to war, they don’t get their deployment orders from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who are the highest ranking military officers in the US armed forces. The orders to each fighting Command must come directly from the White House. Those are the rules. The Joint Chiefs’ role is limited to planning, logistics, and coordination – and advising the President on military matters. They have no command authority on the field troops. This eliminates chances of rogue orders emanating from rogue generals at the pinnacle of the Pentagon.

A coup in US? Unthinkable? Think again

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