http://www.metafilter.com/tags/militaryanalysis Posts tagged with 'militaryanalysis' at MetaFilter. Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:34:14 -0800 Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:34:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/30061/The%2DAmerican%2DMilitary%2DCoup%2Dof%2D2012 <a href="http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm"><i>The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012</i></a> was written in 1992 for the US Army War College's military journal <a href=http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/parahome.htm>Parameters</a>, and describes how the US has fallen victim to a military coup. The article was intended as "a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction." But following a recent article by military affairs analyst William Arkin on how <a href=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-op-arkin23nov23,1,2266588.story?coll=la-headlines-suncomment>American armed forces are assuming major new domestic policing and surveillance roles</a>, some worry that mission creep is <a href=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EL05Aa03.html>making Dunlap's scenario more feasible</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.30061 Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:34:14 -0800 military militaryanalysis militarycoup homunculus