"All" and "always" are troublesome words. Certainly many, possibly most insurgencies are conflicts between "the government" and "the populace" that trace back to weak or bad governance, but it would be dangerous to say "all". Sometimes the root cause is conflict among portions of the populace, often portions with incompatible definitions of "good governance".
An inch wide and a mile deep is perhaps not a hole one wants to spend a career in, but there are good reasons to start a career with that experience. Until you've gone deep and developed specialist knowledge you really don't understand or appreciate what depth is, and how much there is to know about every fraction of every picture. That can lead to dangerous overconfidence. I don't see wide and shallow as a road to wisdom; necessarily, especially without that base of specialized knowledge. Too often it leads to dangerously superficial conclusions.
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