Well, yeah, but it only partly predicts the fate of  'successful' real-life coup-mongers such as Idi Amin & Samuel Doe (both hung on to power for quite a long time) along w/ the bozo that briefly transformed the Central African Republic into an Empire in the latter 1/2 of the '70's. Ol' Idi, even after he was deposed, lived a long and comfortable life & finally died of old-age in exile, while Doe could've lasted a lot longer if he hadn't blunderingly allowed himself to get captured by his enemies.
No, there's enough coup-mongers that manage to live long & comfortable lives to offer enough encouragement to those who desire to follow in their footsteps that there will always be someone else 'waiting in the wings'.

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On Tue, 1/6/15, Ros Knox & Michael Barry <xxxxxx@homemail.com.au> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Real Life (tm) mimics Traveller...
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 12:39 AM

     Anybody recall
 how that Kipling story
       ends...? If I recall the movie right, Michael Caine
 ends up as a
       blind beggar carrying Sean Connery's head in a
 bag. Not exactly a
       rousing endorsement of the practice.

       MB

       On 6/01/2015 10:21 AM, Craig Berry wrote:

       "The Man Who Would Be King"
 by Kipling. Some plots
         (in both senses) never go out of style.

         On Mon, Jan 5,
 2015 at 3:15 PM, Phil
           Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
           wrote:

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             Recently came across this little gem. It could
 fit right
             into the TU as a Mercenary 'ticket';

             Two Americans Charged In Gambia Coup Plot

             The Justice Department charged two Americans
 with attempting
             to overthrow the Gambian government in a failed
 coup last
             week, including a property developer from
 Austin, Texas, who
             allegedly planned to install himself as the
 country's
             leader, according to the Federal Bureau of
 Investigation.

             Cherno Njie, the Texas developer, led and
 financed the
             effort to oust Gambian President Yahya Jammeh,
 an FBI agent
             said in an affidavit. But after it was put down
 by Gambian
             government soldiers, one of the alleged
 conspirators, Papa
             Faal, a dual American and Gambian citizen living
 in
             Minnesota, fled to Senegal, where he turned
 himself in at
             the U.S. embassy. He then explained the plot to
 the FBI,
             according to the affidavit.

             Both men are charged with violating the
 Neutrality Act, a
             law that dates from 1794 that makes it illegal
 for Americans
             to take up arms against a foreign government
 with which the
             U.S. is at peace. They are expected to appear in
 court in
             Baltimore and Minnesota today.

             Information on their attorneys wasn't
 immediately available.

             Mr. Faal, who told the FBI he had served in the
 U.S. Army
             and Air Force, told U.S. law enforcement he
 decided to join
             the coup because he thought elections were
 rigged and the
             "plight of the Gambian people,"
 according to the affidavit.
             A group of about a dozen people planned to
 restore democracy
             to Gambia and hoped to take control peacefully,
 but they
             thought 160 members of the country's
 military would join
             them, according to the affidavit.

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