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The article is written in the voice of a "senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he is able to smuggle out of prison a letter to an old War College classmate discussing the "Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." In it, he argues that the coup was the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992." Its thesis is that the blurring of the military role of the armed forces into civilian missions, however well-intentioned, is potentially dangerous to democracy and civilian government. The author cites the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 and the Military Cooperation With Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act of 1981, actual U.S. laws, as having set a dangerous precedent. Dunlap adds a caveat, ''It goes without saying (I hope) that the coup scenario above is purely a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction.'' EXTERNAL LINKS
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