Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Wilf writes:
The population will obey whoever exercises the power of law over them. Power creates support.
IMHO I would use the word 'submission' rather than support.
IMHO the use of force can almost always ensure compliance but it may or may not ensure cooperation. In a scenario in which you possess unlimited recourse to violence and they do not you can bludgeon them into compliance before they are entirely exterminated. (Probably.) You might even mistake that compliance for cooperation. But should your recourse to violence decrease and theirs increase they might give you a nasty lesson in the difference between the two.