The REAL insurgency (get this straight and start calling it what it is)

Modern insurgency tries to create conditions that will destroy the existing government and make an alternative revolutionary government acceptable to the population. While armed violence always plays a major role in such operations, usually initiated by a small activist minority, acts of terrorism are only the most obvious means used by the rebels. Rumours to discredit the government and its supporters, exacerbation of existing social conflicts and creation of new ones between racial, ethnic, religious, and other groups, political intrigue and manipulation to induce clashes between class or regional interests, economic disruption and dislocation, and any other means likely to destroy the existing social order and to deprive the government of its power base, all play a role in fomenting insurgency.

In pursuit of its goals, the activist minority that forms the hard core of the attempt to overthrow the government will try to recruit a limited number of people for direct participation in their movement and to mobilize a large part of the total population as supporters and occasional helpers. The leaders of the insurgency will also make intensive use of propaganda to secure international sympathy and support. The attacked government is expected to lose the will to resist long before it has exhausted the material resources that allow it to remain in power.

This strategic emphasis on popular support, from which flow important tactical principles, distinguishes insurgency from another technique for the overthrow of an established government, the coup d’état. In an insurgency an activist minority counts on outlasting the government in a protracted struggle with the support of the population. The insurgents use terror tactics primarily and other guerrilla operations such as sabotage, ambushes, and raids. Their resources do not permit an immediate attempt to seize the government’s centre of power, the institutions by which the country is controlled. The opposite technique is used in a coup d’état. There, the aim of the conspirators will usually be to seize swiftly the strategically crucial levers of government, paralyze the incumbents, and take over. Thus, coups d’état take place mainly in the capital and require the support of elite units of the armed forces. Popular support is of secondary importance and frequently a coup replaces one government that lacks mass appeal by another with similar characteristics. Coups are therefore usually manifestations of power struggles among various segments of the elite and do not achieve major social changes.

Unlike conspirators plotting coups against the vital centre of a government, insurgents operate initially at the periphery of the governmental system, in the hope that they will destroy slowly the government’s will to resist. Insurgencies rarely engulf the whole country in armed clashes. Their leaders seek out targets of opportunity when and where they can inflict maximum damage on their enemy at lowest cost to themselves. Insurgencies and coups have therefore in common the relatively limited use of violence but differ in their goals: unlike typical coups, insurgencies aim at making major structural changes in society.

By their goals insurgencies cannot be distinguished from revolutions and indeed the term revolutionary warfare has been used as synonymous with insurgency. There are, however, important differences between insurgencies and revolutions with regard to the total climate of opinion prevailing in the respective society. In an insurgency an activist minority tries to mobilize the population in support of its goals. In a genuine revolution the population at large has already been mobilized spontaneously by its discontent with the old order and is ready to respond to the appeal of revolutionary leaders. Consequently, genuine revolutions spread faster and generate social waves of greater amplitude than insurgencies. They are also likely to achieve broader social transformations because they respond to more widely shared popular demands than insurgencies which represent at first a minority point of view.

When the climate of opinion is ripe for a revolutionary explosion but equally strongly held contrary views are also present in the respective society, the clash of interests results in a civil war.

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Ukraine was a (CIA engineered) coup. Whats' happened here meets the definition of an insurgency. That's why the Democraps and necons keep trying to apply that apply that word to the riot on January 6. The general public has no clue what the word means so the "narrative" propagandists are (mis)defining it for them.