ABSTRACT
The mobility model helps to explain the timing, pace, and trajectory of SRELIM advance toward parity, but makes no explicit reference to political determinants of their progress. Yet it is clear from the five case studies in this book that political factors play a major role in each story. Closer examination of the politics in each case, followed by a systematic search for common themes concerning the role of political factors, would be a major undertaking, indeed the focus of a new research project. Short of that undertaking, it may be helpful to augment the model-based conclusions of the book by briefly indicating what and how a more political orientation would contribute to our understanding of SRELIM mobility history.
