This episode of The Resistance Hub Podcast examines Threshold of Violence, a study from the Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies series produced by United States Army Special Operations Command in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

The analysis explores how insurgent and resistance movements calibrate the use of violence in order to maintain political legitimacy, preserve public support, and pressure stronger opponents without provoking destructive backlash. It explains why both governments and insurgent groups face upper and lower limits on how much force they can use before losing credibility, and how misjudging those limits has repeatedly led to strategic failure.

Listeners will hear how violence is used not only to cause damage, but to send signals, intimidate, provoke, compete for popular support, and disrupt negotiations. The episode also explains why violence in irregular conflicts is rarely random, and is usually the result of deliberate political calculation, even when those calculations go wrong.

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