Old and New Insurgency Forms
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Old and New Insurgency Forms

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Old and New Insurgency Forms

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While the study of insurgency extends well over 100 years and has its origins in the guerrilla and small wars of the 19th century and beyond, almost no cross modal analysis - that is, dedicated insurgency form typology identification - has been conducted. Until the end of the Cold War, the study of insurgency focused primarily on separatist and Marxist derived forms with an emphasis on counterinsurgency practice aimed at those forms rather than on identifying what differences and interrelationships existed. The reason for this is that the decades-long Cold War struggle subsumed many diverse national struggles and tensions into a larger paradigm of conflict - a free, democratic, and capitalist West versus a totalitarian, communist, and centrally planned East.

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Publisher
Perennial Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781531263331
Topic
History
Subtopic
21st Century History
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History

REVIEW OF INSURGENCY TYPOLOGIES

THIS HISTORICAL REVIEW OF post-Cold War insurgency typologies will begin with the seminal 1993 work by Steven Metz titled, The Future of Insurgency. In about a half-dozen or so pages within that work Metz lays out the conceptual basis of both commercial and spiritual insurgency projections. These insurgency forms are highlighted below via direct quotes from Metzā€™s paper.24 Commercial insurgency is described as follows:
When the discontented define personal meaning by material possessions rather than psychic fulfillment, they create the environment for commercial insurgency.
Commercial insurgency is a quasi-political distortion of materialism.
The quickest and easiest path to material possessions and the satisfaction they appear to bring is crime. And, since the discontented of the Third World feel little attachment to the dominant system of values in their societies anyway, moral restraints on criminal activity are limited.
In this psychological context, commercial insurgency is essenti...

Table of contents

  1. SUMMARY
  2. OLD AND NEW INSURGENCY FORMS
  3. DEFINING INSURGENCY
  4. TERRORISM AS INSURGENCY I&W
  5. REVIEW OF INSURGENCY TYPOLOGIES
  6. PROPOSED INSURGENCY TYPOLOGY
  7. LEGACY INSURGENCY FORMS
  8. CONTEMPORARY INSURGENCY FORMS
  9. EMERGENT AND POTENTIAL INSURGENCY FORMS
  10. STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. DEFENSE POLICY
  11. APPENDIX
  12. ENDNOTES