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Coup d'Etat - A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Coup d'Etat - A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Coup d'Etat astonished readers when it first appeared in 1968
because it showed, step by step, how governments could be
overthrown. Translated into sixteen languages, it has inspired
anti-coup precautions by regimes around the world. In addition to
these detailed instructions, Edward Luttwak's revised handbook
offers an altogether new way of looking at political power-one that
considers, for example, the vulnerability to coups of even the most
stable democracies in the event of prolonged economic distress. The
world has changed dramatically in the past half century, but not
the essence of the coup d'etat. 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.
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