Political Strategy

This assessment examines the strategic, political, institutional, and operational factors that prevented the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from converting early battlefield gains into lasting strategic success. Drawing on evidence from the conflict, it explores how military capability, institutional resilience, and political legitimacy shaped the trajectory of the war and offers a broader framework for understanding modern internal conflicts.

This analysis examines how flawed strategic assumptions, institutional misjudgments, and misconceptions about military resilience contributed to widespread underestimation of the Sudanese Armed Forces during the conflict. Beyond Sudan, it offers broader insights into the risks of assessing armed conflicts through political narratives rather than institutional realities.