With snakes-in-the-grass like Mattis and his ilk there are no guarantees that the military is unbiased.
It would boil down to the individual soldier, sailor, airman and Marine as to which side to ‘join’.......................
It would boil down to the individual soldier, sailor, airman and Marine as to which side to join.......................
To have two sides you need two sets of commanders. If the officer class obeys the Pentagon, with only a few isolated exceptions, there wont be a war, just a massacre.
Generals coups often fail. Colonels coups often succeed.
The current state of things in Pentagon City is the result of long-term planning. Any officer who has faced a selection board in the past twenty years has been screened for crimethink.
Its by no means certain what will happen when the four stars decide to go with Biden after he refuses to concede.