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Insurgent
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INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. The colonists who opposed the tyranny of the English government were insurgents, not rebels.


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Larger ground forces are necessary only if we continue to accept the current administration's premise that the only way to deal with adversaries and insurgencies is perpetual war.
Today, the United States contends with a similar challenge as it seeks ways to defeat new insurgencies.
AS THE insurgency in Iraq continues and questions about its outcome surface, one might look for possible historical parallels--and one of the most successful insurgencies against a colonial power in the Middle East was the Jewish revolt, under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus, against Greek Seleucid overlords in the second century B.
 
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