
An insurgency is an armed rebellion by any irregular military that rises up against an established authority, government, or administration. Those carrying out an insurgency are “insurgents”. Insurgents conduct sabotage and harassment. Insurgents usually are in opposition to a civil authority or government primarily in the hope of improving their condition. ==Political discourse== The term is inherently politicsal and is difficult to use without taking a political position. When used by an authority under threat, “insurgency” implies an illegitimacy of cause upon those rising up. Whereas those rising up will see the authority itself as being illegitimate. In cases of rebellions, it refers to those who are not part of the decision-making entity that has the ability to make laws. For example, “the congress has the authority to pass laws to stop the insurgency” vs “the police have the power to arrest insurgents”. ==Mass media== In current use of “insurgency” is distinct from terrorism as in “under threat from insurgents and terrorists”. Insurgency has come into popular use during 2003 through its use by Western politicians and English speaking mainstream media to describe those in resistance to the multinational force in Iraq. As of 2005, the term is used to signify the rebellion against the Iraq interim government. See Iraqi insurgency for more on the Iraq insurgents. ==See also== * Counter insurgency * Rebel -- person active in rebellion, such as members of paramilitary forces. * Freedom fighter -- those engaged in rebellion against an established government. * Members of popular uprisings: ** subversives (intent to overthrow or undermine an established government), ** insurrectionists (armed rebels against the constituted authority), ** mutinys (rebels within the authority's military that refuse to obey orders), ** guerillas (small combat groups who strike, harass and retreat), ** partisans (group of citizens organized to provide paramilitary service), ** militants (violent actors who do not belong to an established military). War Rebellion
== Proposed move of page to insurgency == Hi all. I am, ever so slowly, trying to organize the web of terms related to rebellion, insurgent, freedom fighter, etc. First of all, I am trying to collapse terms that are part of participant-event pairs into their events. I've already moved merged rebel into rebellion and am planning to move insurgent into insurgency unless I hear an objection in the next couple days. See my talk page for a bit of my whining on the subject and let me know if there are issues you think I should be aware of. Cheers, User:BanyanTree 05:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC) I found your discussion of "insurgent" very useful. This is a term that is used increasingly frequently by the media and the dictionary definition does not recognize the political nature of the use of the word. Please keep the listing separate from "insurgency." Thank you. :Thanks for your comments. If the page is merged into insurgency, most of the content would be moved as well (and reworded) and insurgent would become a redirect page to insurgency. The political nature of the entry would therefore remain. User:BanyanTree 16:29, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC) I see you've merged the participant/event pairs. I think this is a sensible move. Perhaps they should all be merged in the same direction? So the real page is the action and the actor page is the redirect, or vica versa. ====Insurgent → Insurgency==== :''From wikipedia:Requested moves'' I am, ever so slowly, attempting to organize and standardize the web of terms relating to rebel, freedom fighter, guerrilla, etc. See User_talk:BanyanTree#Rebellion Rebel Insurgent Freedom fighter Mutiny Militia Militant Terrorism for my full rant on the subject. Where there is little content, I have begun by collapsing event-participant pairs into the event page, which seems like the more logical direction. I've already merged rebel into rebellion, so would like to move the content of Insurgent to Insurgency, and obviously then change the text to fit. User:BanyanTree 19:05, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Support. You might also want to flag this up at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. -User:Gtrmp 05:20, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC) *Support, also list at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. User:NeutralityUser talk:Neutrality 21:35, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC) *Disagree. Okay, I know it's too late, but I think we're moving in the wrong direction. Are we suggesting "guerrillary" and "freedom fightery"? I think people would more likely look for "insurgent". "Insurgency" less unnatural, and sounds stilted. User:A D Monroe III 13:47, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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An insurgency is an armed rebellion by any irregular military that rises up against an established authority, government, or administration. Those carrying out an insurgency are “insurgents”. Insurgents conduct sabotage and harassment. Insurgents usually are in opposition to a civil authority or government primarily in the hope of improving their condition. ==Political discourse== The term is inherently politicsal and is difficult to use without taking a political position. When used by an authority under threat, “insurgency” implies an illegitimacy of cause upon those rising up. Whereas those rising up will see the authority itself as being illegitimate. In cases of rebellions, it refers to those who are not part of the decision-making entity that has the ability to make laws. For example, “the congress has the authority to pass laws to stop the insurgency” vs “the police have the power to arrest insurgents”. ==Mass media== In current use of “insurgency” is distinct from terrorism as in “under threat from insurgents and terrorists”. Insurgency has come into popular use during 2003 through its use by Western politicians and English speaking mainstream media to describe those in resistance to the multinational force in Iraq. As of 2005, the term is used to signify the rebellion against the Iraq interim government. See Iraqi insurgency for more on the Iraq insurgents. ==See also== * Counter insurgency * Rebel -- person active in rebellion, such as members of paramilitary forces. * Freedom fighter -- those engaged in rebellion against an established government. * Members of popular uprisings: ** subversives (intent to overthrow or undermine an established government), ** insurrectionists (armed rebels against the constituted authority), ** mutinys (rebels within the authority's military that refuse to obey orders), ** guerillas (small combat groups who strike, harass and retreat), ** partisans (group of citizens organized to provide paramilitary service), ** militants (violent actors who do not belong to an established military). War Rebellion
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== Proposed move of page to insurgency == Hi all. I am, ever so slowly, trying to organize the web of terms related to rebellion, insurgent, freedom fighter, etc. First of all, I am trying to collapse terms that are part of participant-event pairs into their events. I've already moved merged rebel into rebellion and am planning to move insurgent into insurgency unless I hear an objection in the next couple days. See my talk page for a bit of my whining on the subject and let me know if there are issues you think I should be aware of. Cheers, User:BanyanTree 05:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC) I found your discussion of "insurgent" very useful. This is a term that is used increasingly frequently by the media and the dictionary definition does not recognize the political nature of the use of the word. Please keep the listing separate from "insurgency." Thank you. :Thanks for your comments. If the page is merged into insurgency, most of the content would be moved as well (and reworded) and insurgent would become a redirect page to insurgency. The political nature of the entry would therefore remain. User:BanyanTree 16:29, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC) I see you've merged the participant/event pairs. I think this is a sensible move. Perhaps they should all be merged in the same direction? So the real page is the action and the actor page is the redirect, or vica versa. ====Insurgent → Insurgency==== :''From wikipedia:Requested moves'' I am, ever so slowly, attempting to organize and standardize the web of terms relating to rebel, freedom fighter, guerrilla, etc. See User_talk:BanyanTree#Rebellion Rebel Insurgent Freedom fighter Mutiny Militia Militant Terrorism for my full rant on the subject. Where there is little content, I have begun by collapsing event-participant pairs into the event page, which seems like the more logical direction. I've already merged rebel into rebellion, so would like to move the content of Insurgent to Insurgency, and obviously then change the text to fit. User:BanyanTree 19:05, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC) *Support. You might also want to flag this up at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. -User:Gtrmp 05:20, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC) *Support, also list at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. User:NeutralityUser talk:Neutrality 21:35, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC) *Disagree. Okay, I know it's too late, but I think we're moving in the wrong direction. Are we suggesting "guerrillary" and "freedom fightery"? I think people would more likely look for "insurgent". "Insurgency" less unnatural, and sounds stilted. User:A D Monroe III 13:47, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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