Counterinsurgency, Denial, and Iraq

[SteveMetz]

That Joint definition is horrible and will be different when the new Joint doctrine comes out.

I personally don't buy your distinction between insurgency and resistance. I always think of insurgency as a type of strategy that may be used be a revolutionary movement, a resistance movement, a seapartist movement, etc. I spell that out in here:



I also don't see civil war, insurgency, and terrorism as discrete phenomena. Every insurgency I know of is associated with a civil war of some type. Terrorism is an operational method or tactic.