he Literature of Nonviolent Resistance and Civilian-Based Defense

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In this bibliographic essay, Brian Caplan reviews strategies for
non-violent defense. From the essay:

"...There can be little doubt
that today's foremost thinker sympathetic to nonviolent resistance is
Gene Sharp. With an eye toward practical strategy rather than
philosophy, his major work "The Politics of Nonviolent Action"
(Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973) covers virtually every aspect of the
theory and history of nonviolent resistance to government....