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An '''insurgency''' is an armed [[rebellion]] against a constituted authority (for example, an authority recognised as such by the [[United Nations]]) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognised as [[belligerent]]s.<ref OED-revolt>[[Oxford English Dictionary]] second edition 1989 "insurgent B. n. One who rises in revolt against constituted authority; a rebel who is not recognized as a belligerent."</ref> An insurgency can be fought via [[counter-insurgency]] warfare.

Not all rebellions are insurgencies, because a state of belligerency may exist between one or more sovereign states and rebel forces. For example, during the [[American Civil War]], the [[Confederate States of America]] was [[non-recognized nations|not recognized]] as a sovereign state, but it was recognized as a belligerent power, and thus Confederate warships were given the same rights as United States warships in foreign ports.
<ref name=hall-246>Hall, Kermit L. ''The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions'', Oxford University Press US, 2001 ISBN 0-19-513924-0, 9780195139242 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nO093wNz1PoC&pg=RA1-PA246&dq=insurrection+civil+war&lr=&as_brr=3 p. 246] "In supporting Lincoln on this issue, the Supreme Court upheld his theory of the Civil War as an insurrection against the United States government that could be suppressed according to the rules of war. In this way the United States was able to fight the war as if it were an international war, without actually having to recognize the ''de jure'' existence of the Confederate government."</ref><ref name=US-S-D>Staff. [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cw/106954.htm Bureau of Public Affairs: Office of the Historian -> Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History -> 1861-1865:The Blockade of Confederate Ports, 1861-1865], U.S. State Department. <!--Retrieved 2009-04-28--> "Following the U.S. announcement of its intention to establish an official blockade of Confederate ports, foreign governments began to recognize the Confederacy as a belligerent in the Civil War. Great Britain granted belligerent status on May 13, 1861, Spain on June 17, and Brazil on August 1. Other foreign governments issued statements of neutrality."</ref><ref name=Goldstein-63> Goldstein, Erik; McKercher, B. J. C. ''Power and stability: British foreign policy, 1865-1965'', Routledge, 2003 ISBN 0-7146-8442-2, 9780714684420. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=48EQZ8vM0-UC&pg=PA63&dq=confederacy+belligerants+foreign+ports p. 63]</ref>

When insurgency is used to describe a movement's unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with the [[law]] of the land, its use is neutral. However when it is used by a state or another authority under threat, "insurgency" often also carries an implication that the rebels' cause is illegitimate, whereas those rising up will see the authority itself as being illegitimate.

A variety of terms, none precisely defined, all fall under the category of insurgency: rebellion, uprisings, etc. The value of the [[#Models of Insurgency|formal models]] discussed below is to have a taxonomy to categorize insurgencies. No two insurgencies are identical. The basis of the insurgency can be political, economic, religious, or ethnic, or a combination of factors.

Sometimes there may be one or more simultaneous insurgencies and the [[Iraq insurgency]] is not unique in having a government recognised by most other states and multiple sets of insurgents. Historic insurgencies, such as the [[Russian Civil War]], have been multipolar rather than a straightforward model made up of two sides. While the [[Angolan Civil War]] had two main sides, [[MPLA]] and [[UNITA]]. [[FLEC]], however, was a simultaneous separatist movement for the independence of the [[Cabinda (province)|Cabinda]] region. Multipolarity extends the definition of insurgency to   situations where there is no recognized authority, as in the [[Somali Civil War]], especially the [[Somali Civil War#Division of Somalia (1998-2006)|period, from 1998 to 2006]], where it broke into quasi-autonomous smaller states, fighting among one another in changing alliances.

==Definition==
[[File:Ramadi01.jpg.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Iraqi insurgent]]s in [[Ramadi]], 2005.]]

If there is a rebellion against the authority (for example an authority recognised as such by the United Nations) and those taking part in the rebellion are not recognised as [[belligerent]]s then the rebellion is an insurgency.<ref>[[Oxford English Dictionary]] second edition 1989 "insurgent B. n. One who rises in revolt against constituted authority; a rebel who is not recognized as a belligerent."</ref> However not all rebellions are insurgencies, as state of belligerency may exist between one or more sovereign states and rebel forces. For example, during the [[American Civil War]], the [[Confederate States of America]] was [[non-recognized nations|not recognized]] as a sovereign state, but it was recognized as a belligerent power, and thus Confederate warships were given the same rights as United States warships in foreign ports.

When insurgency is used to describe a movement's unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with the [[law]] of the land, its use is neutral. However when it is used by a state or another authority under threat, "insurgency" often also carries an implication that the rebels cause is illegitimate, whereas those rising up will see the authority itself as being illegitimate.

The use of the term insurgency does recognise the political motivation of those who participate in an insurgency, while the term [[brigandry]] implies no political motivation. If an uprising has little support (for example those who continue to resist towards the end of an armed conflict when most of their allies have surrendered) then such a resistance may be described as brigandry and those who participate as brigands.<ref>Francis Lieber, Richard Shelly Hartigan ''Lieber's Code and the Law of War'', Transaction Publishers, 1983 ISBN 0-913750-25-5, 9780913750254. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7eRfPo2jvx8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95 p. 95]</ref><ref>[[Oxford English Dictionary]] second edition 1989 brigandry "1980 Guardian Weekly 28 Dec. 14/2 Today the rebels wound, mutilate, and kill civilians: where do you draw the fine line between subversion and brigandry?"</ref>

The distinction on whether an uprising is an insurgency or a belligerency has not been as clearly codified as many other areas covered by the internationally accepted laws of war for two reasons. The first is that international law traditionally does not encroach on matter which are solely the internal affairs of a sovereign state (although recent developments such as the [[responsibility to protect]] is starting to undermine this traditional approach). The second is because at the Hague Conference of 1899 there was disagreement between the [[Great Power]]s who considered ''[[francs-tireurs]]'' to be [[unlawful combatants]] subject to execution on capture and smaller states who maintained that they should be considered [[lawful combatants]]. The dispute resulted in a compromise wording being included in the [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|Hague Conventions]] known as the [[Martens Clause]] after the diplomat who drafted the clause.<ref>Ticehurst, Rupert. ''[http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JNHY The Martens Clause and the Laws of Armed Conflict]'' 30 April, 1997,  International Review of the Red Cross no 317, p.125-134  {{ISSN|1560-7755}}. Ticehurst in footnote 1 cites The life and works of Martens are detailed by V. Pustogarov, "Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens (1845-1909) — A Humanist of Modern Times", ''International Review of the Red Cross'' (IRRC), No. 312, May-June 1996, pp. 300-314. Also Ticehurst in his footnote 2 cites  F. Kalshoven, ''Constraints on the Waging of War'', Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1987, p. 14.</ref>

The [[Third Geneva Convention]], as well as the other Geneva Conventions, are oriented to conflict involving nation-states, and only loosely address irregular forces:<blockquote> "Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements..."<ref name=Geneva3>{{citation
 | url = http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/375?OpenDocument
 | title = Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Third Geneva Convention)
 | contribution = Commentary on Article 3
 | date= 12 August 1949
}}</ref> </blockquote>

The [[United States Department of Defense]] (DOD) defines it as "An organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through use of [[#Subversion|subversion]] and armed conflict." <ref name = JP1-02 /> The new United States counterinsurgency Field Manual,<ref name = FM3-24>{{citation   | publisher = US Department of the Army  | first1 = John A. | last1 = Nagl | first2 = David H.| last2 = Petraeus | first3 = James F. | last3 =Amos |first4 = Sarah | last4 = Sewall 
  | title = Field Manual 3-24  Counterinsurgency 
  | comment = While military manuals rarely show individual authors, [[David Petraeus]] is widely described as establishing many of this volume's concepts.
  | date = December 2006
  | url = http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf
  |format=PDF| accessdate = 2008-02-03}} </ref> proposes a structure that includes both ''insurgency'' and ''counterinsurgency'' [COIN]. (''italics'' in original)<blockquote>Insurgency and its tactics are as old as warfare itself. Joint doctrine defines an ''insurgency'' as an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict.<ref name = JP1-02>{{citation
  | last = US Department of Defense
  | authorlink = United States Department of Defense
  | title = Joint Publication 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms 
  | date = 12 July 2007
  | id = JP 1-02   | url = http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf  |format=PDF| accessdate = 2007-11-21}}</ref>  These definitions are a good starting point, but they do not properly highlight a key paradox: though insurgency and COIN are two sides of a phenomenon that has been called revolutionary war or internal war, they are distinctly different types of operations. In addition, insurgency and COIN are included within a broad category of conflict known as irregular warfare.</blockquote>

This definition does not consider the morality of the conflict, or the different viewpoints of the government and the insurgents. It is focused more on the operational aspects of the types of actions taken by the insurgents and the counterinsurgents.

{{quotation|The Department of Defense’s (DOD) definition focuses on the type of violence employed
(unlawful) towards specified ends (political, religious or ideological). This characterization fails
to address the argument from moral relativity that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom
fighter.” In essence, this objection to a suitable definition submits that while violence may be
“unlawful” in accordance with a victim’s statutes, the cause served by those committing the acts
may represent a positive good in the eyes of neutral observers.|Michael F. Morris<ref name=Morris2005 />}}

The following discussion illustrates how the definition becomes blurred under political influence.

The French expert on Indochina and Vietnam, [[Bernard Fall]], entitled one of his major books ''Street without joy: insurgency in Indochina, 1946-63''. <ref name=Fall1964> {{citation
 | title = Street without joy: insurgency in Indochina, 1946-63
 | first = Bernard B. | last = Fall
 | publisher = Literature House (China)
 | edition = 3rd
 | year = 1964}}</ref> Fall himself, however, wrote later on that "revolutionary warfare" might be a more accurate term. <ref name=Fall1965>{{citation
 | title = The Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
 | first = Bernard B. | last = Fall
 | date = April 1965 Issue 
 | journal = U.S. [[Naval War College]] Review
 | url = http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/navy/art5-w98.htm}}</ref> Insurgency has been used for years in professional military literature. Under the British, the situation in Malaya (now Malaysia) was often called the "Malayan insurgency". <ref name=Grau2004>{{citation
 | title = Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
 | journal = Military Review
 | date = May-June, 2004
 | first = Lester W. | last =Grau
 | url =http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_2004_May-June/ai_n6123976 }}</ref>, or "the Troubles" in [[Northern Ireland]]. Insurgencies have existed in many countries and regions, including the [[Philippines]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Chechnya]], [[Kashmir]], [[Yemen]], [[Djibouti]], [[Colombia]], [[Sri Lanka]], and [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], the American colonies of [[Great Britain]], and the [[Confederate States of America]].<ref name=Anderson2007>{{citation
 | title = A Proof-of-Concept Model for Evaluating Insurgency Management Policies Using the System Dynamics Methodology
 | journal = Strategic Insights
 | volume=VI
 | issue=5 
 | date=August 2007
 | first = Edward G., Jr. | last = Anderson 
 | url = http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2007/Aug/andersonAug07.asp}}</ref> Each had different specifics but share the property of an attempt to disrupt the central government by means considered illegal by that government. North points out, however, that insurgents today need not be part of a highly organized movement:<blockquote> "Some are networked with only loose objectives and mission-type orders to enhance their survival. Most are divided and factionalized by area, composition, or goals. Strike one against the current definition of insurgency. It is not relevant to the enemies we face today. Many of these enemies do not currently seek the overthrow of a constituted government...weak government control is useful and perhaps essential for many of these “enemies of the state” to
survive and operate."<ref name=North2008>{{citation
 | title = Redefining Insurgency
 | first = Chris | last = North
 | journal = Military Review
 | date = January-February 2008
 | url = http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JanFeb08/NorthINSIGHTSJanFeb08.pdf
 |format=PDF| publisher = U.S. Army Combined Arms Center}}</ref></blockquote>

==Tactics==
Insurgencies differ in their use of tactics and methods.

Robert R. Tomes spoke of four requisites:<ref name=Tomes2004>{{citation
 | url = http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/PARAMETERS/04spring/tomes.pdf
 |format=PDF| first = Robert R. | last = Tomes 
 | journal = Parameters
 | title = Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare
 | publisher = United States Army War College
 | year = 2004
}}</ref> in a 2004 article, identifies four elements that "typically encompass an insurgency":
#cell-networks that maintain secrecy
#[[terrorism]] used to foster insecurity among the population and drive them to the movement for protection
#multifaceted attempts to cultivate support in the general population, often by undermining the new regime
#attacks against the government

Tomes is an example of a definition that does not cover all insurgencies, for example the [[French Revolution]] had no cell system, and in the [[American Revolution]] little to no attempt was made to terrorize civilians, or consecutive [[#coup|coups]] in 1977 and 1999 Pakistan the initial actions focused internally to the government rather than seeking broad support. While Tomes' definition fits well with Mao's Phase I <ref name=MaoProtracted />, it does not deal well with larger civil wars. Mao does assume terrorism is usually part of the early phases, but it is not always present in revolutionary insurgency.

Tomes offers an indirect definition of insurgency, drawn from [[Trinquier]]'s definition of counterinsurgency:  "an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the [insurgents’ intended] overthrow of the established authority in a country and its replacement by another regime" <ref name=Trinquier>{{citation
 | url = http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/trinquier/trinquier.asp
 | year = 1961
 | first = Roger| last = Trinquier | authorlink = Roger Trinquier
 | title = Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency 
 | publisher = Editions de la Table Ronde }}</ref>

Metz <ref name=Metz2007>{{citation
 | title = Rethinking Insurgency
 | url = http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/Pubs/display.cfm?pubID=790
 | first =  Steven | last = Metz
 | publisher = Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
 | date = 5 June 2007
}}</ref> observes that past models of insurgency do not perfectly fit modern insurgency, in that current instances are far more likely to have a multinational or transnational character than those of the past. Several insurgencies may belong to more complex conflicts, involving  "third forces (armed groups which affect the outcome, such as militias) and fourth forces (unarmed groups which affect the outcome, such as international media), who may be distinct from the core insurgents and the recognized government.  While overt state sponsorship becomes less common, sponsorship by transnational groups is more common. "The nesting of insurgency within complex conflicts associated with state weakness or
failure..." [see the discussion of failed states below] Metz suggests that contemporary insurgencies have far more complex and shifting participation than traditional wars, where discrete belligerents seek a clear strategic victory.

===Terrorism===

''[[Terrorism|Main article (Terrorism)]]''

Not all insurgencies include terrorism, with the caveat that there is no universally accepted definition of terrorism. While there is no accepted definition in international law, a [[United Nations]]-sponsored working definitions include one drafted by [[Alex P. Schmid]] for the Policy Working Group on the
United Nations and Terrorism. Reporting to the Secretary-General in 2002, the Working Group stated the following:
<blockquote>Without attempting a comprehensive definition of terrorism, it would be useful to
delineate some broad characteristics of the phenomenon. Terrorism is, in most cases,
essentially a political act. It is meant to inflict dramatic and deadly injury on civilians
and to create an atmosphere of fear, generally for a political or ideological (whether
secular or religious) purpose. Terrorism is a criminal act, but it is more than mere
criminality. To overcome the problem of terrorism it is necessary to understand its
political nature as well as its basic criminality and psychology. The United Nations
needs to address both sides of this equation.”<ref name=UNterr>{{citation
 | author = Secretary General's Policy Working Group on the United Nations and Terrorism
 | journal = Focus on Crime and Society
 | volume = 4
 | date = December 2004
 | id = (A/57/273-S/2002/875, annex)
 | url = http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Forum/V05-81059_EBOOK.pdf
 |format=PDF| title = Preface
 | issue = 1 & 2 }}</ref></blockquote>

Yet another conflict of definitions involves insurgency versus terrorism. The winning essay of the 24th Annual [[United States]] [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]] Strategic Essay Contest, by Michael F. Morris, said [A pure terrorist group] "may pursue political, even revolutionary, goals, but their violence replaces rather than complements a political program."<ref name=Morris2005>{{citation
 | title = Al Qaeda as Insurgency
 | first = Michael F. | last = Morris
 | year = 2005
 | publisher = [[United States]] [[Army War College]]
 | url = http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/ksil234.pdf
|format=PDF}}</ref>  Morris made the point that the use, or non-use, of terrorism does not define insurgency, "but that organizational traits have traditionally provided another means to tell the two apart. Insurgencies normally field fighting forces orders of magnitude larger than those of terrorist organizations."  Insurgencies have a political purpose, and may provide social services and have an overt, even legal, political wing. Their covert wing carries out attacks on military forces with tactics such as [[Raid (military)|raids]] and [[ambush|ambushes]], as well as acts of terror such as attacks that cause deliberate civilian casualties.

Mao considered terrorism a basic part of his first part of the three phases of revolutionary warfare.<ref name=MaoProtracted /> Several insurgency models recognize that completed acts of terrorism widen the [[#Eizenstat and closing gaps|security gap]]; the Marxist guerrilla theoretician [[Carlos Marighella]] specifically recommended acts of terror, as a means of accomplishing something that fits the concept of opening the security gap.<ref name=Marighella>{{citation
 | url = http://www.marxists.org/archive/marighella-carlos/1969/06/minimanual-urban-guerrilla/index.htm
 | first = Carlos | last = Marighella 
 | year = 1969
 | title = Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
}}</ref> Mao considered terrorism to be part of forming a guerilla movement.

===Subversion===
While not every insurgency involves terror, most involve an equally hard to define tactic, subversion. "When a country is being subverted it is not being outfought; it is being out-administered. Subversion is literally administration with a minus sign in front." <ref name=Fall1965 /> The exceptional cases of insurgency without subversion are those when there is no accepted government that is providing administrative services.

While it is less commonly used by current U.S. spokesmen, that may be due to the hyperbolic way it was used in the past, in a specifically anticommunist context.   [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] [[Dean Rusk]] did in April 1962, when he declared that urgent action was required before the “enemy’s subversive politico-military teams find fertile spawning grounds for their fish eggs.” <ref name=Rosenau2007>{{citation
 | title = Subversion and Insurgency
 | first = William | last = Rosenau
 | publisher = RAND National Defense Research Institute
 | year = 2007}}</ref>

In a Western context, Rosenau cites a British [[Secret Intelligence Service]] definition as "a generalized intention to ('''emphasis added''') “overthrow or '''undermine''' parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means.”  While insurgents do not necessarily use terror, it is hard to imagine any insurgency meeting its goals without undermining aspects of the legitimacy or power of the government or faction it opposes. Rosenau mentions a more recent definition that suggests subversion includes measures short of violence, which still serve the purposes of insurgents.<ref name=Rosenau2007 /> Rarely, subversion alone can change a government; this arguably happened in the liberalization of Eastern Europe.{{Fact|date=August 2008}} To the Communist government of [[Poland]], [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] appeared subversive but not violent.{{Fact|date=August 2008}}

==Political rhetoric, myths and models==
In arguing against the term [[War on Terrorism|Global War on Terror]], Fukuyama went on to point out that the United States was not fighting terrorism generically, as in [[Chechnya]] or [[Palestine]]. He said the slogan "war on terror" is directed at "radical Islamism, a movement that makes use of culture for political objectives." He suggested it might be deeper than the ideological conflict of the Cold War, but it should not be confused with Huntington's "clash of civilizations". Addressing Huntington's thesis,<ref name=Huntington-1996 /> Fukuyama stressed that the United States and its allies need to focus on specific radical groups, rather than clash with global Islam.

Fukuyama argued that political means, rather than direct military measures, are the most effective ways to defeat that insurgency. <ref name=Fukuyama2003>{{citation
 | url = http://www.brook.edu/comm/events/summary20030514.pdf
 |format=PDF| publisher = Brookings Institution
 | first = Francis | last = Fukuyama | authorlink = Francis Fukuyama
 | date = May 2003
 | title = Phase III in the War on Terrorism: Challenges and Opportunities
 | contribution = Panel III: Integrating the War on Terrorism with Broader U.S. Foreign Policy}}</ref> [[David Kilcullen]] wrote "We must distinguish Al Qa’eda and the broader militant movements it symbolises – entities that use terrorism – from the tactic of terrorism itself."<ref name=Kilcullen2004>{{citation
 | title = Countering Global Insurgency: A Strategy for the War on Terrorism
 | first = David | last = Kilcullen | authorlink = David Kilcullen
 | url = http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil/search/articles/counteringglobalinsurgency.pdf
 |format=PDF| year = 2004}}</ref>

There may be utility in examining a war not specifically on the tactic of terror, but in coordination among multiple national or regional insurgencies. It may be politically infeasible to refer to a conflict as an "insurgency" rather than by some more charged term, but military analysts, when concepts associated with insurgency fit, should not ignore those ideas in their planning.  Additionally, the recommendations can be applied to the strategic campaign, even if it is politically unfeasible to use precise terminology<ref name=Canonico>{{cite paper
 | title = An Alternate Military Strategy for the War on Terrorism
 | author =  Canonico, Peter J.
 | url = http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/theses/canonico04.pdf
 |format=PDF| date = December 2004
 | publisher = U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
}}</ref> 

While it may be reasonable to consider transnational insurgency, Cordesman points out some of the '''myths''' in trying to have a worldwide view of terror:<ref name=Cordesman2007-10-29 />
:*Cooperation can be based on trust and common values: One man’s terrorist is another man’s terrorist.
:*A definition of terrorism exists that can be accepted by all.
:*Intelligence can be freely shared.
:*Other states can be counted on to keep information secure, and use it to mutual advantage.
:*International institutions are secure and trustworthy.
:*Internal instability and security issues do not require compartmentation and secrecy at national level.
:*The “war on terrorism” creates common priorities and needs for action.
:*Global and regional cooperation is the natural basis for international action.
:*Legal systems are compatible enough for cooperation.
:*Human rights and rule of law differences do not limit cooperation.
:*Most needs are identical.
:*Cooperation can be separated from financial needs and resources

Social scientists, soldiers, and sources of change have been modeling insurgency for nearly a century, if one starts with Mao.<ref name=MaoProtracted>{{citation
 | url = http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/PW38.html
 | author = Mao Tse-tung
 | title = On Protracted War
 | work = Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
 | publisher = Foreign Languages Press
 | year = 1967 
}}</ref> Counterinsurgency models, not mutually exclusive from one another, come from  Kilcullen, McCormick,  Barnett and Eizenstat.  Kilcullen describes the "pillars" of a stable society, while Eizenstat addresses the "gaps" that form cracks in societal stability.  McCormick's model shows the interplay among the actors: insurgents, government, population and external organizations. Barnett discusses the relationship of the country with the outside world, and Cordesman focuses on the specifics of providing security.

===Kilcullen's pillars===
[[Image:KilcullenEcosystem.png|thumb|275px||Kilcullen Figure 1: Ecosystem of Insurgency<ref name=Kilcullen3P />]]
[[Image:Kilcullen3Pillars.png|thumb|275px|Kilcullen's Three Pillars]] 

Kilcullen gives a useful visual overview<ref name=Kilcullen3P>{{Citation
 | url = http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/uscoin/3pillars_of_counterinsurgency.pdf
 |format=PDF| title = Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency
 | first =  David | last = Kilcullen | authorlink = David Kilcullen
 | conference = U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Conference, Washington D.C.
 | date =28 September 2006
}}</ref> of the actors in the models, which generally agrees with a model represents home as a box defined by geographic, ethnic, economic, social, cultural, and religious characteristics. Inside
the box are governments, counterinsurgent forces, insurgent leaders, insurgent forces, and the general population, which is made up of three groups: 
:#those committed to the insurgents
:#those committed to the counterinsurgents
:#those who simply wish to get on with their lives.
Often, but not always, states or groups that aid one side
or the other are outside the box. Outside-the-box
intervention has dynamics of its own.<ref name=Lynn>{{citation
 | url = http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/milreview/download/English/JulAug05/lynn.pdf
 |format=PDF| journal = Military Review
 | date = July-August 2005
 | title = Patterns of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
 | author = Lynn,  John A.
}}</ref>

The three pillar model repeats later as part of the [[#Gaps|gaps to be closed]] to end an insurgency. 

"Obviously enough, you cannot command what you do not control. Therefore, ''unity of command'' (between agencies or among government and non-government actors) means little in this environment." Unity of command is one of the axioms of military doctrine<ref name=FM3-0>{{Citation
 | title = Field Manual 3-0: Operations
 | date = 14 June 2001
 | location=Washington, D.C.
 | publisher=Department of the Army
 | url = http://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-0.pdf| format=PDF
}}</ref> that change with the use of swarming:<ref name=Edwards-2004>{{Citation
 | url = http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD189/
 | title = Swarming and the Future of War
 | author = Edwards, Sean J.A.
 | month = September | year = 2004
 | series = PhD thesis
 | publisher=Pardee RAND Graduate School
}}</ref>. In Edwards' swarming model, as in Kilcullen's mode, unity of command becomes "''[[unity of effort]]'' at best, and collaboration or deconfliction at least.''<ref name=Kilcullen3P />.

As in [[Swarming (military)|swarming]], Kilcullen "depends less on a shared command and control hierarchy, and more on a shared diagnosis of the problem (i.e., the distributed knowledge of swarms), platforms for collaboration, information sharing and deconfliction. Each player must understand the others’ strengths, weaknesses, capabilities and objectives, and inter-agency teams must be structured for versatility (the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks) and agility (the ability to transition rapidly and smoothly between tasks)."

===Eizenstat and closing gaps===
Insurgencies, according to Eizenstat ''et al.'' grow out of "gaps".<ref name=Eizenstat-2005>{{citation
 | url = http://www.cgdev.org/doc/commentary/15_Eizenstat.pdf
 |format=PDF| journal = Foreign Affairs
 | title = Rebuilding Weak States
 | author = Eizenstat, Stuart E.
 | authorlink = Stuart E. Eizenstat
 | coauthors = John Edward Porter and Jeremy M. Weinstein
 | date = January/February 2005
 | volume = 84 
 | issue = 1
}} </ref>  To be viable, a state must be able to close three "gaps", of which the first is most important:
:* '''security''': protection "against internal and external threats, and preserving sovereignty over territory. If a government cannot ensure security, rebellious armed groups or criminal nonstate actors may use violence to exploit this '''security gap'''—as in Haiti, Nepal, and Somalia."
:* '''capacity''': The most basic are the survival needs of water, electrical power, food and public health, closely followed by education, communications and a working economic system.<ref name=Sagraves>{{citation 
 | url = https://research.maxwell.af.mil/papers/ay2005/acsc/3569%20-%20Sagraves.pdf
 |format=PDF| title = The Indirect Approach: the role of Aviation Foreign Internal Defense in Combating Terrorism in Weak and Failing States
 | author = Sagraves, Robert D
 | publisher = Air Command and Staff College
 |date=April 2005}}</ref>  "An inability to do so creates a '''capacity gap,''' which can lead to a loss of public confidence and then perhaps political upheaval. ''In most environments, a capacity gap coexists with—or even grows out of—a security gap.'' In Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, segments of the population are cut off from their governments because of endemic insecurity. And in postconflict Iraq, critical capacity gaps exist despite the country’s relative wealth and strategic importance."<ref>Stuart Eizenstat ''et al'', ''[http://www.stanford.edu/~jweinst/files/ForeignAffairs_2005.pdf Rebuilding Weak States]'', Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, January/February 2005. p. 136 (137 PDF)</ref>
:* '''legitimacy''': closing the '''legitimacy gap''' is more than an incantation of "democracy" and "elections", but a government that is perceived to exist by the consent of the governed, has minimal corruption, and has a working law enforcement and judicial system that enforce human rights.

Note the similarity between Eizenstat's gaps and Kilcullen's three pillars.<ref name=Kilcullen3P/> In the table below, do not assume that a problematic state is unable to assist less developed states while closing its own gaps.

{| class="wikitable"
<caption>Rough classification of states</caption>
|-
! State type
! Needs
! Representative examples
|-
| Militarily strong but weak in other institutions
| Lower tensions before working on gaps
| [[Cuba]], [[North Korea]]
|-
| Good performers
| Continuing development of working institutions. Focused private investment
| [[El Salvador]], [[Ghana]], [[Mongolia]], [[Senegal]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Uganda]]
|-
| Weak states
| Close one or two gaps
| [[Afghanistan]],  [[Egypt]], [[Indonesia]], [[Iraq]], [[Ivory Coast]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Pakistan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Myanmar]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Sudan]], [[Syria]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Zimbabwe]]
|-
| Failed states
| Close all gaps
| [[Angola]], the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Haiti]], [[Liberia]], [[Palestine]], [[Somalia]]
|}

===McCormick Magic Diamond===
McCormick’s model<ref name=McCormick>{{cite paper
 | title = The Shining Path and Peruvian terrorism
 | author = McCormick, Gordon  
 | publisher = RAND Corporation
 | comment = often called Magic Diamond
 | id = Document Number: P-7297
 | year = 1987
}}</ref>
is designed as a tool for counterinsurgency (COIN), but develops a symmetrical view of the required actions for both the Insurgent and COIN forces to achieve success. In this way the counterinsurgency model can demonstrate how both the insurgent and COIN forces succeed or fail. The model’s strategies and principle apply to both forces, therefore the degree the forces follow the model should have a direct correlation to the success or failure of either the Insurgent or COIN force.

[[Image:COIN-McCormick.png|thumb|275px|McCormick insurgency model]]

The model depicts four key elements or players:
:#Insurgent Force
:#Counterinsurgency force (i.e., the government)
:#Population
:#International community.
All of these interact, and the different elements have to assess their best options in a set of actions:
:#Gaining Support of the Population
:#Disrupt Opponent’s Control Over the Population
:#Direct Action Against Opponent
:#Disrupt Opponent’s Relations with the International Community
:#Establish Relationships with the International Community

===Barnett and connecting to the core===
In Thomas Barnett's paradigm,<ref name=Barnett>{{Citation
 | author = Barnett, Thomas P.M.
 | authorlink = Thomas P.M. Barnett
 | title = The Pentagon's New Map: The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century
 | publisher = Berkley Trade 
 | year = 2005 
 | isbn-10 = 0425202399
 | id = Barnett-2005
}}</ref> 
the world is divided into a "connected core" of nations enjoying a high level of communications among their organizations and individuals, and those nations that are disconnected internally and externally. In a reasonably peaceful situation, he describes a "system administrator" force, often multinational, which does what some call "nation-building", but, most importantly, connects the nation to the core and empowers the natives to communicate -- that communication can be likened to swarm coordination. If the state is occupied, or in civil war, another paradigm comes into play: the '''leviathan''', a first-world military force that takes down the opposition regular forces. Leviathan is not constituted to fight local insurgencies, but major forces. Leviathan may use extensive [[Swarming (military)|swarming]] at the tactical level, but its dispatch is a strategic decision that may be made unilaterally, or by an established group of the core such as [[NATO]] or [[ASEAN]].

===Cordesman and security===
Other than brief "Leviathan" takedowns, security building appears to need to be regional, with logistical and other technical support from more developed countries and alliances (e.g., ASEAN, NATO). Noncombat military assistance in closing the security gap begins with training, sometimes in specialized areas such as intelligence. More direct, but still noncombat support, includes intelligence, planning, logistics and communications.

Anthony Cordesman notes that security requirements differ by region and state in region. Writing on the Middle East, he identified different security needs for specific areas, as well as the US interest in security in those areas.<ref name=Cordesman2007-10-29>{{citation
 | title = Security Cooperation in the Middle East
 | first = Anthony H. | last = Cordesman
 | date = 29 October 2007
 | publisher = Center for Strategic and International Studies
 | url = http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4139/type,1/
 | format = {{dead link|date=July 2010}}
}}</ref> 
:*In [[North Africa]], the US focus should be on security cooperation in achieving regional stability and in counterterrorism.
:*In the [[Levant]], the US must largely compartment security cooperation with Israel and cooperation with friendly Arab states like [[Egypt]], [[Jordan]], and [[Lebanon]], but can improve security cooperation with all these states.
:*In the [[Persian Gulf|Gulf]], the US must deal with the strategic importance of a region whose petroleum and growing gas exports fuel key elements of the global economy.

It is well to understand that counterterrorism, as used by Cordesman, does not mean using terrorism against the terrorism, but an entire spectrum of activities, nonviolent and violent, to disrupt an opposing terrorist organization. The French general, Joseph Gallieni, observed, while a colonial administrator in 1898,
<blockquote>A country is not conquered and pacified when a military operation has decimated its inhabitants and made all heads bow in terror; the ferments of revolt will germinate in the mass and the rancours accumulated by the brutal action of force will make them grow again<ref name=McClintock-2005>{{Citation
 | author = McClintock, Michael
 | title = Great Power Counterinsurgency
 | publisher = Human Rights First
 | month = November | year = 2005 
 | url =http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/programareas/conferences/presentations/McClintock,%20Michael.ppt
}}</ref></blockquote>

Both Kilcullen and Eizenstat define a more abstract goal than does Cordesman. Kilcullen's security pillar is roughly equivalent to Eizenstat's security gap:
:*Military security (securing the population from attack or intimidation by guerrillas, bandits, terrorists or other armed groups)
:*Police security (community policing, police intelligence or “Special Branch” activities, and paramilitary police field forces).
:*Human security, building a framework of human rights, civil institutions and individual protections, public safety (fire, ambulance, sanitation, civil defense) and population security.

"This pillar most engages military commanders’ attention, but of course military means are applied across the model, not just in the security domain, while civilian activity is critically important in the security pillar also ... all three pillars must develop in parallel and stay in balance, while being firmly based in an effective information campaign."<ref name=Kilcullen3P />

Anthony Cordesman, while speaking of the specific situation in Iraq, makes some points that can be generalized to other nations in turmoil.<ref name = Cordesman-2006>{{Citation
 | title = The Importance of Building Local Capabilities: Lessons from the Counterinsurgency in Iraq
 | author =  Cordesman, Anthony H.
 | authorlink = Anthony Cordesman
 | publisher = Center for Strategic and International Studies
 | url = http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,3411/type,1/
 | date = August 1, 2006
 | format = {{dead link|date=July 2010}}
}}</ref>  Cordesman recognizes some value in the groupings in [[Samuel Huntington]]'s idea of the [[clash of civilizations]],<ref name=Huntington-1996>{{Citation
 | title = The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order 
 | authorlink = Samuel P. Huntington
 | author =  Huntington, Samuel P.
 | publisher= Simon & Schuster 
 | year = 1996
 | isbn-10 = 0684811642
}}</ref> but, rather assuming the civilizations must clash, these civilizations simply can be recognized as actors in a multinational world. In the case of Iraq, Cordesman observes that the burden is on the Islamic civilization, not unilaterally the West, if for no other reason that the civilization to which the problematic nation belongs will have cultural and linguistic context that Western civilization cannot hope to equal.
 
The heart of strengthening weak nations must come from within, and that heart will fail if they deny that the real issue is the future of their civilization, if they tolerate religious, cultural or separatist violence and terrorism when it strikes at unpopular targets, or if they continue to try to export the blame for their own failures to other nations, religions, and cultures.

==Counterinsurgency==
:See [[Counter-insurgency]] and [[Foreign internal defense]]

Before one counters an insurgency, however, one must understand what one is countering.  Typically the most successful counterinsurgencies have been the British in the [[Malay Emergency]]<ref>Thomas Willis, "Lessons from the past: successful British counterinsurgency operations in Malaya 1948-1960", July-August 2005, ''Infantry Magazine''</ref> and the Filipino government's countering of the [[Huk Rebellion]].

==National doctrines==
*[[Foreign internal defense]]
*[[Reagan Doctrine]]
*[[Unconventional warfare (United States Department of Defense doctrine)]]

==See also==
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*[[Counter-insurgency]]
*[[Fourth generation warfare]]
*[[Guerrilla warfare]]
*[[Insurrectionary anarchism]]
*[[Irregular Warfare]]
*[[Revolutionary warfare]]
*[[Political Warfare]]

'''Case studies:'''
*[[List of revolutions and rebellions]]
*[[Insurgency in North East India]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://stabilization.developmentgateway.org/uploads/media/stabilization/fixed_20_03_2009_Afghanistan%20-%20From%20Insurgency%20to%20Stabilisation%20-%20March%202009.pdf "From Insurgency to Stabilisation in Afghanistan"]

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