Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
I think there's another type of insurgency, one that gets less attention here than it might. My own familiarity with this comes from an environment far removed from Afghanistan, but it would not surprise me to see the same phenomenon appearing there.

I would call this type of insurgency "issue-driven", with the driving issues primarily local. People in this position may not be trying to overthrow a government or secede from a nation, they are simply trying to force a government to stop doing specific things that they find offensive or opposed to their interests.
That's a very good point, and I can think of several examples off the top of my head (the Red River Rebellion comes to mind). My gut guess is that this type of issue-driven insurgency rapidly shifts into either a separatist one (e.g. the US Colonies), a governmental replacement (e.g. Cuba) or gets resolved politically (e.g. Bolivia). Of course, it probably depends on what the "issue" is .