I don't that one flies...an insurgency may generally be conducted against one's one populace but COUNTER-insurgency is often (more often than not?) conducted by a foreign force agaisnt a population e.g. France in Algerie and Indo-Chine, England in the US, the US et al in Vietnam, NATO in AFG, the Commonwealth in Malaya...
Also a broad popular base of support may not necessarily exist in an insurgency, often the insurgent will NOT be representative of the broader population e.g. the CT in Malaya, Taliban in AFG, AQ in Iraq, Republicans in Northern Ireland, militia in Timor Leste, Mau Mau in Kenya, Red Brigade?Baaader-Meinhof etc in Europe (I don't think they actually count but they probably thought they did)...
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