A coup d’état is a strike on the state or government, usually resulting in a military victory or overthrow. There are four types of coups, including breakthrough, veto, guardian, and bloodless. The term can also refer to non-violent victories or advantages in various fields, such as politics.
Coup d’état, or coup d’état, comes from the French verb couper, which means to strike. Etat means “the state”. It can be translated into a strike on the state or a coup on the government. The term can refer to a military victory or the overthrow of a government. It is usually a total victory which renders the army of the incumbent government powerless and thus means the takeover of the government.
When people refer to the coup, they often refer to it as a military coup. There are four types, according to Samuel Phillips Huntington. Huntington is a political scientist who believes that most takeovers in the 21st century will be where people rise up against the government. The four types are:
breakthrough,
veto,
guardian, e
bloodless coup.
Technically every coup can be bloodless. The takeover of a government is achieved simply by threat and not by the use of violence. However, most examples involve the loss of many lives.
Revolutionary coup occurs when a revolutionary group overthrows the incumbent government and assumes the role of new leaders. A coup d’état occurs when someone seizes top-level power from another, usually by claiming that doing so is necessary due to mass disorder in the state. A veto refers to the army having to put down the rebellion and organization by the people of the state. This tends to be the worst kind because many civilians can be killed in the process.
Another type is the coup. In many Native American tribes, it was considered a much greater honor to strike than to kill an enemy. Some warriors had staves, which were marked with the number of times they were able to strike in battle, rather than in killing someone. Since “coup” was still a French-derived word for Native Americans, the idea of striking rather than killing may have been related to the concept of “touché”, a touch by the opponent in a duel, rather than a kill .
Completely unrelated to battle is the use of the term to denote a victory or advantage in a number of different fields. A fundraising committee that gets a popular singer to sing at a charity function would consider it a coup. Hosting the Olympics could be considered a coup for a country, just like televising the Olympics is a coup for a TV station.
The term can refer to politics in a non-violent way. For example, Democratic victories in the US House and Senate in 2006 were considered a coup for the Democratic Party. Since this gives some political power to the Democrats, this could be seen at the loosest definition as a bloodless coup.
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