Re: [OT?] Indigenous insurgencies

I think we're talking about insurgencies in general.  These are
basically
revolutions against despotic, weak, and/or unpopular governments.  So
the
examples I gave would count.  Minority guerrila movements are usually
simply labelled "terrorism";  the ones that are popular and successful 
are labelled "revolutions" :)

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Even the engineers are not *this* depraved.  This must be the work of
the
Med. students.

						- A friend of mine

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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Jonathan Jarrard wrote:

> Sorry to jump in, but do those really count as insurgencies?	There's
a
> big difference between leading a revolution in the middle of a power
> vacuum or chaos, and leading a successful guerilla war against a
stable
> government that has at least a large portion of the populace's
support.
> 
> Lots of revolutions, coups, and such succeed when a government has
> failed to satisfy 'enough of the right people' (to massively
paraphrase
> Machiavelli).  I think the point is that minority-inspired guerilla
> movements have seldom managed to achieve more than banditry without
> outside support.
>