'A guide for measuring resiliency and resistance'

This essay addresses the critical need to apply a more advanced human-centric model in assessing current levels of governmental and societal resilience and resistance to subversion and coercion, as well as internal and/or external aggression. It proposes a method of analysis and assessment of the will, potential, and sustainability for national and/or sub-national resilience, as well as the potential for resistance to malign indigenous governance or external aggression. Finally, it examines, from a prospective external supporter's perspective, the likely success of support to a partner's resiliency or the potential to enable resistance to inspire change in adversary behaviors.

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This essay discusses the critical need to use a more advanced human-centric model when assessing the capability of governments and societies to resist subversion, coercion, and aggression, as well as their ability to recover. It proposes a method of analyzing and evaluating the will, potential, and sustainability of national and sub-national resilience, as well as the potential to resist malicious governance or external aggression. Lastly, it examines the likelihood of success in providing support for partner resilience from an external perspective, as well as the potential to inspire change in adversary behaviors through resistance.