The final chapter reflects on the major arguments of the book, highlighting the resilience and durability of the NRM regime in Uganda. It emphasizes how the interplay between coercive strategies, militarized patronage networks, and the strategic management of residual social structures has enabled the regime to consolidate and sustain authoritarian rule since 1986. It explores broader implications of the NRM’s hybrid approach, which combines repression with co-optation, negotiation, and selective accommodation of entrenched social actors. By contrasting NRM’s experience with other postwar African regimes, it underscores the importance of pre-existing social institutions in shaping authoritarian strategies. Finally, the chapter considers the limits of this approach, particularly amid intra-elite tensions, generational shifts, and uncertainties surrounding political succession, offering broader insights into how post-conflict authoritarian regimes adapt, endure, and may ultimately face destabilization.