==The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012== is a paper written by Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF, at the time a Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, US Central Command, at MacDill AFB, Florida.
The article is written in the voice of a "senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he is able to smuggle out of prison a letter to an old War College classmate discussing the "Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." In it, he argues that the coup was the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992."