Insurgency vs. Civil War

[Tukhachevskii]

I have always thought of insurgencies as violent/non-violent activites whose goal/s can be scaled along a continuum from a change in policy to outright state capture (or revolution, i.e., overthrowing a regime).

In civil wars the identity of the state, its organisational form and the scope/extent/depth of its territorial authority are themselves are in question (take, for instance, the US war of Sesession/Civil War).