How can we last the modern occupation? More than War [ANALYSIS]

In many historical cases there were spaces of limited control: anonymity of regular relationships, imperfection of the police apparatus, deficiency of continuous supervision of communication and flow of information. In this context, David Galula, in the War of Anti-Pows dancing: explanation and practice (Counterinsurgency Warfare: explanation and Practice) described the opposition as a political and social process, in which force is only 1 instrument of wider competition for legitimacy and control of the population. Galula did not reduce opposition to purely military confrontation, but pointed to its rooting in social, administrative and political relations. Similarly, Mao Zedong, in his book On Guerrilla Warfare, considered an irregular conflict as a phase process. In its view, it is possible to separate the phase of political mobilization and the construction of the backroom, then the phase of guerrilla combat, and under favourable conditions the anticipation of moving towards more conventional activities. Although Mao's concepts were embedded in a circumstantial Chinese context, their impact on reasoning about irregular war was long and broad.