INSURGENCY

Insurgency

An insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents. An insurgency can be fought via counter-insurgency warfare, and may also be opposed by measures to protect the population, and by political and economic actions of various kinds aimed at undermining the insurgents' claims against the incumbent regime. The nature of insurgencies is an ambiguous concept.

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insurgency

Noun

  1. rebellion; revolt; the state of being insurgent
    suppress the insurgency by isolating the rebels from the rest of the population


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