Re: [OT?] Indigenous insurgencies

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, John Atkinson wrote:

> *Ding, Ding*	Cluebus arriving. . . 

What's a cluebus?  Some kind of a street car with answers painted on its
side?:)

> My dear boy, there is a great difference between a coup, revolution, 
> civil war, and guerilla war.	The latter his protracted low-intensity 

I thought we were talking about insurgencies here, (i.e. the militant
opposition to an established government) and not just guerilla war. 
After
all, guerilla war by itself is just a tool for insurgencies, along with
propaganda, "conventional" war, etc.
There are many examples of *insurgencies* winning, but as to guerilla
war... by your definition of it (i.e. a stage of a revolution) certainly
wouldn't "win" on its own.
Of course, throughout all of these, popular support is the key.

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