War serves demographic goals even when militarily unwinnable

Evidence

The Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology further dictates that war is good even if it is not winnable, because war causes Tamils to flee the northeast and vitiates the LTTE’s attempt to create eelam (Tamil State). For similar reasons, nationalist forces want the Northern and Eastern Provinces de-merged. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 269

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s research framing: external threat (Tamil separatism) is instrumentally sustained because it justifies demographic conquest; parallels Base Nation and black-demographic anxieties patterns. — connects to: Demographic framing of war treats population change as a violent imperative. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 51; War stress can paradoxically increase family sizes in defeated communities; Warfare can flourish without any material stake in the conflict — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 163 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• War stress can paradoxically increase family sizes in defeated communities #exemplifies (0.88)
• Nationalists frame demographic fertility as a weapon for territorial control #exemplifies (0.85) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 289
• Demographic framing of war treats population change as a violent imperative. #corroborates (0.78) — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 51
• War abroad functions as domestic social control #complicates (0.73)
• Warfare can flourish without any material stake in the conflict #corroborates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 163
• Wartime sexual coercion created a postwar moral crisis driven by demographic imbalance #qualifies (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1112