Re: [OT?] Indigenous insurgencies

You wrote: 
>
>Oh boy, here we go again.  We're back to the topic of insurgencies.  
John, >you've never answered my question as to what kind of foreign 
support >Kerensky and Sun Yat-sen got...

*Ding, Ding*  Cluebus arriving. . . 

My dear boy, there is a great difference between a coup, revolution, 
civil war, and guerilla war.  The latter his protracted low-intensity 
conflict.  A coup takes a few days or a few weeks, and is marked by 
minimal fighting   A Civil War is not a guerilla war either, in which 
elements of the Regular Army and militia troops take the field in 
conventional conflict.	There are also hybrid wars like the US 
Revolution wherein the US had guerilla elements (for instance, Colonel 
Marion and Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys) and a conventional army 
in the field.  But a straight guerilla war?  Never been done without 
outside support, safe havens, and a lot of luck.  And NEVER won without 
transitioning into a conventional warfare phase.  And that's 
by-the-book Mao right there--three phases.  First is lowgrade 
terrorism, second is more intense guerilla war, and third is 
conventional conflict.

John M. Atkinson