Naomi Wolf- "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries"

Interview here on how to respond to America's totalitarian coup.
"Once you yield to the first threat, instead of arresting the leader who has staged a coup(enforcing a police state), you see more and more serious incursions, exactly as with Mussolini in 1920.
"The army under Rumsfeld changed its oath recently, a completely new oath 'The Warriors Creed'- to the Commander in Chief rather than to the Constitution, and completing 'the Mission' rather than serving the Constitution."
Of course, exactly as dictatorships do; ie the first duty of the organs of state, and specifically military organs of state, is to the head of state, rather than to the state. Though the quoted sample little more than a random extract, rather than any hyperbolic highlight. Also to add, coups don't require external takeovers; the more famous European examples being coups from within , using and abusing the parliamentary framework to install the desired totalitarian regime.