My reply was... let's be generous and call it lazy. Your "outnumber" claim was not hard to understand. But I am having difficulty understand how this effort you suggest will work.
Majority is one issue, "local majority" is another. A country can have 10 distinct regions, and a centrally controlled group can visit them in turn thus "appearing" 10 times stronger.
"Viisting in turn" is one fatal vulnerability the thugs can never adequately defend.
Such transportation and communications necessary
already have failure modes "ready to trigger".
I am not sure what you mean here. What I mean is, the govt thugs can be a small minority but through proper centralized maneuvering have majority where it matters most at all times.
Transportation can be fickle and communications can always fail at unfortunate moments,
especially when assisted...
People make mistakes all the time, especially when they get drunk.
such "visit-in-turn" operations require Transportation and Communications
but those requirements are hopelessly vulnerable inside a tyranny.
Vulnerable for the victims not the tyrants surely?
Any large scale operation
shuffling a group of thugs from one theatre to another is vulnerable.
Repeatedly invading too many "someone's hometown" is how militaries repeatedly fail.
I never heard of this before. Even if true (I doubt it is) however, surely they can do some transport around and get some of these advantages?
That is, when this group visits one region, its size needs to be comparable in size with the the particular region only. When it visits a region it can put its "people" in charge.
In theory the "good people" can find strategies to counter this, but I believe it is very hard to do so in practice. People are just not ready for the decentralization it requires.
True, that is the biggest problem
