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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by xvector on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:14AM (#27152661)
There are over a million service members in our armed forces. A couple of retired, senile crazies does not indicate a “military putsch brewing.”
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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by baybal2 on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:22AM (#27154636)
The number is significant.

The statutory limit on US army general staff is 241, and most of those guys are quite recent retirees.

Countries had putsches with much lesser portion of generals mutinying, and some times made without general staff involvement as such. In fact there are almost as much succesful putches on record by majors, and colonels, than generals.

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