> revolutions normally come through civil conflict, not military wars I cant agree with you on this for two reasons: 1. A stipulated definition of revolution

> revolutions normally come through civil conflict, not military wars I cant agree with you on this for two reasons: 1. A stipulated definition of revolution is needed to make a claim about what is normal or most typical. 2. Even when revolution takes the form of armed conflict (typically because its ideas can't win), I think the decisive expenditures are military as opposed to civil (i.e. police) because the territory has natural divisions within their military or because an outside entity/ies provides assistance to a side. Witness Lebanon, Syria, Vietnam, Korea, ....