Phase III: The Defection of the Pillars
No regime survives without the compliance of its middle-tier officials—the civil servants, the police, and the military rank-and-file. As the protest movement grows, it directs its outreach toward these individuals.
The resistance leaders adopt a policy of "conditional amnesty," offering paths for those who choose to stop enforcing the regime's dictates. As soldiers realize that the population they are tasked with suppressing is their own family, and as middle-level bureaucrats see the writing on the wall, they begin to defect. The regime becomes a head without a body; the orders are issued, but they are no longer carried out.
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