Small Wars
I wanted to throw this table up now and I'll come back and post on it in the next day or so. It's from a recent book by Gil Merom. How Democracies lose Small Wars.
Since my scan is a lot murkier than I had hoped I retyped the text below. I had hoped to rescan the table, but the book is currently checked out.
Distance between State and and Society
"Society" --- Consensus --- "State"
Insurgency starts/intensifies and manpower needs increase
(shift to state) Mobilization
Casualties
(shift to state) Battlefield frustration,
search for operational successes
(shift to society) Growth of expedient opposition
Center of Gravity shifts towards the domestic scene
(shift to state) Brutilzation: war turns dirty
(shift to society) Further growth of moral opposition
Center of gravity shifts home
(shift to state) Deception and and oppression at home
The War become a perceived threat to democracy
(shift to society)Secondary expansion of the normative difference
War failure
(adapted from figure1.2 process of democratic failure in small wars: Gil Merom. How Democracies lose small wars. Cambridge univ. Pr, 2003)
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