It reminds me of the fall of Germany in World War II: the Fuhrer is dead and anyone else either doesn't really have the authority, doesn't know what to do with it, or is fleeing for their life. When a government collapses, there really isn't a government at all. An occupation force needs to set up a regime to provide order while the citizens compose a new government (or one is set up for them, with a constitutional convention and elections as the first order of business). Something like what happened with Japan.
When the Ottoman Empire had been defeated in World War I, T.E. Lawrence helped to lead the Arab tribes to Damascus to convene and form government in the middle east. Their lack of vision, tribal rivalries, and failure to agree made the conclave a futile disaster, and my impression is that it left Lawrence with a profound sense of failure.
It reminds me of the fall of Germany in World War II: the Fuhrer is dead and anyone else either doesn't really have the authority, doesn't know what to do with it, or is fleeing for their life. When a government collapses, there really isn't a government at all. An occupation force needs to set up a regime to provide order while the citizens compose a new government (or one is set up for them, with a constitutional convention and elections as the first order of business). Something like what happened with Japan.
When the Ottoman Empire had been defeated in World War I, T.E. Lawrence helped to lead the Arab tribes to Damascus to convene and form government in the middle east. Their lack of vision, tribal rivalries, and failure to agree made the conclave a futile disaster, and my impression is that it left Lawrence with a profound sense of failure.