Examples of insurgency in the following topics:
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- Following the overthrow of the Taliban, the U.S. supported the new government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai by maintaining a high level of troops in the area, as well as by combating Taliban insurgency.
- Concerns remain regarding the Taliban insurgency, the role of Pakistan in training those insurgents, the drug trade, the effectiveness of Afghan security forces, and the risk of Afghanistan degenerating into a failed state after the withdrawal.
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- Political Process Theory argues that there are three vital components for movement formation: insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities.
- The insurgent consciousness is the collective sense of injustice that movement members (or potential movement members) feel and serves as the motivation for movement organization.
- Some groups may have the insurgent consciousness and resources to mobilize, but because political opportunities are closed, they will not have any success.
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- However, an insurgency arose against the U.S.
- The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion.
- Other elements of the insurgency were led by fugitive members of President Hussein's Ba'ath regime, which included Iraqi nationalists and pan-Arabists.
- Many insurgency leaders were Islamists who claimed to be fighting a religious war to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate of centuries past.
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- American advisors came in the late 1950s to help the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) in the South combat communist insurgents from the North under communist leader Ho Chi Minh, known as the Viet Cong.
- Realizing that Diem would never agree to the reunification of the country under Ho Chi Minh’s leadership, the North Vietnamese began efforts to overthrow the government of the South by encouraging insurgents to attack South Vietnamese officials.
- By 1960, North Vietnam had also created the National Liberation Front (NLF) to resist Diem and carry out an insurgency in the South.
- The Viet Cong and communist insurgencies in South Vietnam took advantage of this instability and increased their strength.
- General Paul Harkins, the commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, confidently predicted victory against the insurgents by Christmas of 1963.
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- However, an insurgency arose against the U.S.
- The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion.
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- Turner started with a few trusted fellow slaves, but the insurgency ultimately numbered more than 70 enslaved and free blacks, some of whom were mounted on horseback.
- The slaves killed approximately sixty white men, women and children before Turner and his brigade of insurgents were defeated.
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- In the lower South, violence continued and new insurgent groups arose.
- This marked the beginning of heightened insurgency and attacks on Republican officeholders and freedmen in Deep South states.
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- Political process theory argues that there are three vital components for movement formation: insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities.
- The insurgent consciousness is the collective sense of injustice that movement members (or potential movement members) feel and serves as the motivation for movement organization.
- Some groups may have the insurgent consciousness and resources to mobilize, but because political opportunities are closed, they will not have any success.
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- His forces defeated the small pockets of insurgents spread across the Tidewater.
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- Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups soon led to the Iraqi insurgency, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi groups, and the emergence of a new faction of al-Qaeda in Iraq.