After the recent coup that took place in Burkina Faso, which was launched by a lieutenant colonel, I noticed that many coups that I am familiar with, especially those in Africa, seemingly have been lead by people with these ranks but not Admirals or Generals. This is purely conjecture on my part of course. However it is interesting that so many colonels and lieutenant colonels are able to gain enough support to launch coups in the first place. This there any precedent to this? Am I right with my hunch?