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An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irregular forces face a large, well-equipped, regular military force state adversary. [ 4 ]
An insurrection is an uprising to change the government. [7] If a government does not recognize rebels as belligerents , then they are insurgents and the revolt is an insurgency . [ 8 ] In a larger conflict, the rebels may be recognized as belligerents without their government being recognized by the established government, in which case the ...
Stirner distinguished between "revolution" and "insurrection", defining the aims of "revolution" to be a new arrangement of society by a state, while he considered the aims of an "insurrection" to be the rejection of such arrangements and the free self-organisation of individuals.
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
The committee investigating the insurrection will focus on what Trump was doing on Jan. 6, 2021. This is the story of what happened without him.
Guerrilla warfare during the Peninsular War, by Roque Gameiro, depicting a Portuguese guerrilla ambush against French forces. Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run ...
A claim stating President Donald Trump has signed the Insurrection Act as part of a planned series of events is false. Fact check: The Insurrection Act is not in effect and is unnecessary in DC ...
It is the most prominent communist armed conflict in the Philippines, [11] with more than 43,000 insurgency-related fatalities between 1969 and 2008. [12] It is also one of the longest ongoing communist insurgencies in the world.