“Civilian resistance alternative CIVILIAN RESISTANCE EXPLAINED Robert P. Churchill. Nuclear Arms as a Philosophical and Moral Issue Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 469, Nuclear Armament and Disarmament (Sep, 1983), pp. 46-57. p. 56. Civilian resistance focuses upon the defense of a nation's basic social institutions, culture, and ideological beliefs by training the civilian population in organized nonviolent resistance and noncompliance. In addition to protecting human lives, a national defense must successfully protect away of life the institutions, rights, and principles that form the stable framework for life and provide a group with an organized expression of conscious preferences and commitments Civilian resistance therefore seeks to deter aggression by making it clear to any potential invader that he could not control and dominate the political and social life of the nation he seeks to invade. He would see that military occupation would not by itself give him political control and would not be experienced by the population as defeat rather it would mean an extension of the contest of will and ideology.
