- List of Figures*
- List of Tables**
- Acknowledgment
- Preface to the 2016 Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Foreword by Walter Laqueur (1978)
- 1. What Is the Coup d’État?
- 2. When Is a Coup d’État Possible?
- 3. The Strategy of the Coup d’État
- 4. The Planning of the Coup d’État
- 5. The Execution of the Coup d’État
- Appendix A. The Economics of Repression
- Appendix B. Tactical Aspects of the Coup d’État
- Appendix C. Statistics
- Index
- * Figures
- 4.1. Alternative forms of government
- 4.2. The formal government and the real one
- 4.3. Telecommunication facilities available to governments
- 4.4. The physical targets of the coup
- 4.5. Physical targets in a coastal city
- 5.1. Operational sequence and timing
- 5.2. Intelligence “noise” and analysis
- 5.3. Lead time required by teams to reach their targets
- 5.4. Simultaneous penetration of the defensive warning system
- A.1. Political survival limit on taxation
- A.2. The Duvalier formula
- B.1. “Sophisticated” seizure of major defended targets
- B.2. General structure of blocking position
- C.1. Frequency of coups d’état, 1950–2010
- C.2. Proportion of successful vs. failed coups d’état, 1950–2010
- C.3. Frequency of coups d’état by region, 1950–2010 (stacked)
- C.4. Frequency of coups d’état by region, 1950–2010 (unstacked)
- C.5. Distribution of coups d’état by region, 1945–1965
- C.6. Distribution of coups d’état by region, 1966–2010
- ** Tables
- 3.1. Formal structures and real chains of command
- 3.2. Country X: potential forces of intervention
- 3.3. Optimum infiltration strategy
- 3.4. The role of ethnic minorities in Syrian politics
- 3.5. Class of 19– at military academy of Country X: present career position
- 3.6. The Aref brothers in Iraq, 1958–1966: a study in loyalty
- 3.7. Battalion No. 1: recruitment prospects
- 3.8. Infiltration of the armed forces in Portugal
- 3.9. Infiltration of the armed forces in Germany
- 4.1. Groups that try to influence US policies in the Middle East
- 4.2. Alternative forms of government
- 4.3. Mass communications in the Middle East and North Africa, mid-1967
- 4.4. Police telecommunication facilities in Ghana, 1967
- 5.1. The mechanics of intervention of the loyalist forces
- 5.2. The first communiqué: a choice of styles
- B.1. Eve of the coup: forces of the state fully subverted
- C.1. Economic development and the coup d’état, 1945–2010
- C.2. Basic list of coups and attempted coups, 1945–2010
- C.3. The efficiency of the coup d’état, 1945–2010: outcome as a function of main party
- C.4. The frequency of the coup d’état: region and time distribution of coup, 1945–2010
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