FictionWashington: Colonel Dunlap's CoupA fictionalized essay that has been circulating within the Pentagon offers a blunt warning on severalfrontsBy Thomas E. RicksJanuary 1993 Issue ShareSave About the AuthorThomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks is the author of Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. He writes the "Best Defense" blog at Foreign Policy and is the military-history columnist at The New York Times Book Review.