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Coup d'État; A Practical Handbook

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780674737266, 9780674969650, 9780674969667, 2015033858
ASIN
B01DM1ZA26
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1479797 bytes)
Pages
300\0
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Politics: International Relations
Time added
2024-08-17 14:52:36

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." —William Casey, CIA Director “The CIA does not do public health, by the way, it does coup d’etats against democracies. So between 1947 and 1998 the CIA was involved in 87 coup d’etats against a third of the nations on Earth, most of them democracies. So that's what they do.”—RFK Jr.’ Edward Luttwak’s 1968 handbook showed, step-by-step Bible of how governments can and are overthrown around the world. In addition to these instructions, his revised handbook offers a new way of looking at political power—one that considers the vulnerability of stable democracies after prolonged economic distress. The world has changed dramatically in the past half century, but not the essence of the coup d’état. It still requires the secret recruitment of military officers who command the loyalty of units well placed to seize important headquarters and key hubs in the capital city. The support of the armed forces as a whole is needed only in the aftermath, to avoid countercoups. And mass support is largely irrelevant, although passive acceptance is essential. To ensure it, violence must be kept to a minimum. The ideal coup is swift and bloodless. Very violent coups rarely succeed, and if they trigger a bloody civil war they fail utterly. Luttwak identifies conditions that make countries vulnerable to a coup, and he outlines the necessary stages of planning, from recruitment of coconspirators to postcoup promises of progress and stability. But much more broadly, his investigation of coups―updated for the twenty-first century―uncovers important truths about the nature of political power. With all the in your face details of how there is an important omission of why. Motivation is not just about global domination or short term removal of in inconvenient adversary that won’t play ball with behemoth demands. It is about evil for its own sake, genocide just for fun. Any 33rd degree elite mason understands what it means to be a blood drinking, flesh eating Satanist whose goal is to destroy the human race, but the population at large is not unless perhaps they read the SRA survivor biographies that clearly document this abusive mentality. These corrupt people are out there and in positions of power world wide. They abound in three letter agencies where life and death is an issue. The consequential human trafficking from all the suffering they promote is very profitable as well.

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