Civilian-based defense: a post-military weapons system

Abstract

Part 1. Defense without war? -- The need for defense -- Civilian-based defense -- Historical prototypes -- Improvised struggles against Coups d'état -- Improvised struggles against invasions -- A basis for systematic development -- Notes -- Part 2. Tapping the sources of power -- Unexpected capacities -- Dependent rulers -- Identifying the sources of power -- Dependency on the governed -- Repression insufficient -- The possibility for collective resistance -- Requirements for implementation -- The structural basis of popular control -- The structural basis of freedom -- Societal origins of defense -- Notes -- Part 3. Wielding power -- A nonviolent weapons system -- The methods of nonviolent action -- Wielding power -- The importance of strategy -- The importance of the loci of power -- The opponents' problems -- Repression -- Combative nonviolent discipline -- Political jujitsu -- Four mechanisms of change -- Factors influencing coercion and disintegration -- Removing the sources of power -- Failure or success? -- Changes in the struggle group -- Even against dictatorships -- Notes --