"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
Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook
✍ Scribed by Edward N. Luttwak
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 234
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The coup is the most frequently attempted method of changing government, and the most successful. Coup d' ?tat outlines the mechanism of the coup and analyzes the conditions--political, military, and social, that gives rise to it. In doing so, the book sheds much light on societies where power does indeed grow out of the barrel of a gun and the role of law is a concept little understood.
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