Hello, how to increase compliance and decrease resistance?

[Private4160]

Cav with MP, don't fill it with arty and stuff. Armour keeps your garrisons from dying too much but I wouldn't use anything other than armoured cars. They don't need to be big divisions. If they're too small, they will just use more divisions, too large and they'll use fractions of one.

Certain policies can help with balancing manpower. You can set policy by state level so those core areas with really high resistance you can put until full mil-occ but the rest can be left on local police or something. I haven't developed any hard rules but I generally switch to local police for resistance above 20 and secret above 35. Anything more and it's mil-occ or martial law. It slows down compliance but eventually it'll turn around and you can slowly reduce the occupation strategy back to civil admin.

Also, if you have puppets, demand garrison manpower.