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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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The best and brightest civilian and military minds in the government developed strategies and concepts for defeating the communist insurgency in Southeast Asia as part of an overall strategy of containment. The Iraqi insurgency was taking shape, the Syrian border was wide open, munitions and arms dumps with over a million tons of weapons and ammunition were left unguarded and the American forces on the ground, far from beginning to adapt to the changes around them, were already thinking about going home. Sectarian violence (Sunnis and Shiites killing each other) has surpassed the insurgency (militants attacking foreign and Iraqi troops) as the main security threat. |
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