{"id":9211,"date":"2013-07-08T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2013-07-07T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T02:51:38","slug":"could-the-united-states-undergo-a-military-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/could-the-united-states-undergo-a-military-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Could The United States Undergo A Military Coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070813_0236_CouldTheUni1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/07\/07\/the_wikipedia_war_over_egypts_coup\">coup\/revolution<\/a> in Egypt got Rosa Brooks wondering if the US could lose its streak of 237 consecutive years without a military overthrow of a civilian government. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American military officials are becoming more partisan. Political endorsements by retired senior officers, for example, are now a regular feature of Presidential campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>Army officers also increasingly distrust America&#8217;s civilian leadership.<\/li>\n<li>This is in part due to the all-volunteer military. A particular subset of individuals enlist for the military and they increasingly feel that the wider public don&#8217;t understand the lives of those in the military.<\/li>\n<li>While the military might distrust civilians, the American public holds extremely positive views about the military\u2026perhaps a little too positive. Only a minority of Americans now favour civilian control of the military.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the conspiracy theorists who (almost certainly wrongly) believe that America is already on the verge of a coup, how those in the military are increasingly uncomfortable with discussing politics, and the distortions introduced by an all-volunteer military over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2013\/07\/04\/america_the_coupless\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2013\/07\/04\/america_the_coupless\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent coup\/revolution in Egypt got Rosa Brooks wondering if the US could lose its streak of 237 consecutive years without a military overthrow of a civilian government. Highlights include: American military officials are becoming more partisan. Political endorsements by retired senior officers, for example, are now a regular feature of Presidential campaigns. Army officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070813_0236_CouldTheUni1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9217,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions\/9217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}