How to Stage a Military Coup by Ken Connor & David Hebditch

Author:Ken Connor & David Hebditch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783830022
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Published: 2013-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

Invasion or Intervention?

In terms of regime change there is a fine but distinct line between direct military intervention (as was the case of Iraq in 2003) and the external sponsorship of a military coup d’état.

Military intervention is a polite way of saying that the military forces of one country have invaded another sovereign state, guns blazing. This is done in the full glare of publicity; warnings in presidential speeches, intelligence assessments made public, UN Security Council resolutions forced through, deadlines set and CNN tipped off about the landing-beach. On the other hand, the sponsored coup is a covert operation using internal armed forces. Any external support will be mercenaries or troops from a neighbouring state also a client of the sponsoring country. The sponsorship will usually come in the form of arms, intelligence, training and cash.

In this chapter we set out two examples from the early 1970s; the CIA-sponsored coup in Chile and the MI6-sponsored coup in Uganda.

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