Poverty may equate to stability
I agree with the first part of your assessment that poverty is not the leading cause for insurgencies, that is simply a figment of liberal imagination. In some cases it may argued that poverty equates to stability that is another thread.
I'm still not convinced that war forges a national identity that makes a nation resistant to insurgency. Both Japan and Germany lost major wars and yet they remained resistant to insurgencies. Most of Northern Europe on the good side of the wall remained resistant to insurgencies. Most of Canada (minus a few French separatists) remained resistant to insurgency. The UK didn't remain resistant, nor did any country in Southern Europe. S. Africa was forged by war (a war of liberation, then subsequent wars in Africa), but it wasn't resistant to insurgencies. Bangladesh was forged by war with W Pakistan, but it suffers from numerous insurgent groups. Thailand has a strong national identity (not forged by war), but it still suffers from insurgencies.
Are you only referring to Western countries? What qualifies as a good war that forges a nation and makes it resistant to insurgency?
Question: Has any nation explicitly used
"External War as a Pall[i]ative Against Insurgency" (that is, explicitly took on an international armed conflict as a cure, or part of the cure, for a domestic armed conflict) ?
Regards
Mike
I dunno what other people think,
except as they express themselves in words.
So, back to the title: External War as a Palliative Against Insurgency. Put quite simply, I'm the Power That Be in Xistan. I have a domestic insurgency. I decide to embark on an external war to "palliate"[*] the insurgency.
Has this happened (where the choice is explicit as I have stated) and was the palliation successful ? Simple answer: nation-state, time period, reference.
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[*] Looking up the word "palliative", the medical definition is less than a "cure":
Quote:
Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure
Regards
Mike