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Title: Coup D'Etat by Edward Luttwak ISBN: 0-674-17547-6 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Only comprehensive book on such an important topic
Comment: With Coup d'Etats continuously occurring all over the world, this book is more relevant than ever in dealing with the subject. For example, using the framework developed in this book, it is easy to understand why the many recent coup attempts in Venezuela have failed (both by Chavez and the more recent one against him). Every time there is a coup I find myself referring back to the book in order to determine if there were any telltale signs to predict whether the coup will be successful or not.
His basic framework involves timing, media control and popular support, and government organizational structure. With these factors in mind, the author examines a large number of coups, both successful and failed. The inner stories of many of these coups is fascinating by itself, yet the author does a good job of telling the tale while drawing the main lessons from it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for any political observer
Comment: Luttwak himself provides the best justification for this book, which is that coups remain the single most common form of power change throughout the world but are rarely studied as a phenomenon.
With remarkable detail and historical examples, Luttwak examines the patterns that exist in all coups, including which ones make a successful or failed takeover, including timing of assault, control of media organs, and the role of the populace.
Coup D'Etat is an older book, but remains as relevant as ever. A great guide when forcasting the results of coups that make headlines to this day.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Open Letter To Senor Pedro Carmona
Comment: Dear Pedro,
Next time you wish to overthrow the leftist thug who currently occupies the Venezualen presidential palace, please read this book -- ya might learn something! Your recent aborted coup was a lesson in how not to overthrow a government. First off, you failed to learn the true loyalties of many significant players. This book reminds you of a key coup-throwing tip -- if you don't know their loyalties, round 'em up.
Project strength, control the media, neutralize doubtful elements of the armed forces, build coalitions where possible, and never let the deposed autocrat rally support for a counter-coup. These are but a few lessons you will find in this slim, yet elegant, volume. Read it, know it, be it (you'll have plenty of time while serving what promises to be a lengthy prison sentence)! And next time, for the sake of your people, make sure Hugo Chavez sleeps with the fishes.
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Title: Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace by Edward N. Luttwak ISBN: 0674007034 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire : From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, J. F. Gilliam ISBN: 0801821584 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1979 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Art of Political Warfare by John J., Jr Pitney ISBN: 0806133821 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away by Michael Arthur Ledeen ISBN: 0844739928 Publisher: AEI Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: How to Make War (Fourth Edition) : A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century by James F. Dunnigan ISBN: 006009012X Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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