Armor Magazine Counterinsurgency Selected Works - US Army

The Roots of Insurgent
by Captain Christopher L. Center
(Reprinted from November-December 2007)
Insurgencies have existed as a means of change in political and social situations
since the beginning of time. Instructional and intellectual methods have
allowed for these vehicles of change to evolve in their asymmetric concepts
of warfare for the state and the insurgent. This article discusses the “roots of
an insurgency” and how the military of the state has countered insurgent warfare
through intellectual and instructional methods.