Gunner Asch on Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:10:39 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

But you fantasy about government employees all running of to join the
rebels, which is physically possible, but doesn't seem to be what has
happened historically in any country.

All? No..but a good many of them most certainly will..starting with
the troops themselves. Office folks...perhaps not so many. Which is
why Liberals tend to work in Government jobs.

He might want to look into the history of "civil unrest". How the
drug cartels in Mexico were able to hire some of the US trained
Mexican special forces troops to work for them. How the Cossacks
signaled that the gig was over, when they fraternized with the
demonstrators, rather than disperse them, in 1917
Or what happened to the Peoples Army in Yugoslavia, after Tito
died? (Or the Lebanese Army, prior to that country's civil war.)
Or the "Velvet Revolution" in the Philippines - when the Army
"voted" by deciding to "stay in barracks" and President Marcos was
replaced. Similar thing happened when the Communist putsch against
the Soviet Government failed, because the Red Army decided to sit this
one out.


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