This strategic emphasis on popular support, from which important tactical principles emerge, distinguishes insurrection from another technique for overthrowing an established government, the coup. In an uprising, a militant minority expects to survive the government in a protracted struggle with popular support. The insurgents mainly use terror tactics and other guerrilla operations such as sabotage, ambushes and raids. Their resources do not allow for any immediate attempt to conquer the center of government power, the institutions that control the country. The reverse technique is used in a coup. There, as a rule, the goal of the conspirators will be to quickly seize the strategic levers of government, paralyze the incumbents and take power. Thus, coups take place mainly in the capital and require the support of elite units of the armed forces. Popular support is secondary, and often a coup replaces a government lacking mass appeal with one with similar characteristics. The coup is therefore usually the manifestation of power struggles between different sections of the elite and does not result in major social changes. Modern insurrection seeks to create conditions that destroy the existing government and make an alternative revolutionary government acceptable to the population. While armed violence still plays a major role in these operations, which are usually initiated by a small militant minority, acts of terrorism are only the rebels` most obvious means.

Rumors of discrediting the government and its supporters, exacerbating existing social conflicts and creating new conflicts between racial, ethnic, religious and other groups, political intrigues and manipulations to provoke clashes between class or regional interests, economic disruption and upheaval, and any other means that can destroy the existing social order and bring the government to its power base. All play a role in fomenting the uprisings. They were busy doing so in cases like Roe v. Wade, when a right-wing uprising surprised them. James Fearon and David Laitin define insurgency as “a technology of military conflict characterized by small, lightly armed gangs engaged in guerrilla warfare from rural base areas.” [1] [10] Austin Long defines insurgency as “the use of political and military means by irregular forces to alter an existing political order. These forces usually mix with civilians to hide from forces defending the political order. [11] According to Matthew Adam Kocher, Thomas Pepinsky and Stathis Kalyvas, one of the central objectives of the insurgencies is to take control of civilians. [4] It is easy to imagine that this is a congress of crows exorcised because of an uprising and demanding the previous question. Tomes proposes an indirect definition of insurrection derived from Trinquier`s definition of counterinsurgency: “an interlocking system of actions – political, economic, psychological, military – aimed at overthrowing the authority established in one country and replacing it with another regime.” [17] If the climate of opinion is ripe for a revolutionary explosion, but equally strongly represented opposing views are also present in the respective society, the conflict of interest leads to civil war. Like a revolution, a civil war participates in a broad participation of the population and thus greatly increases the level of violence on both sides. In contrast, in a typical uprising, the rebel minority defies the forces defending the government amid a population that is initially only partially involved on both sides. Without a broad base in the population, support for what is perceived as a “just cause” cannot reach the broad spectrum that revolution or civil war can reach, but it can continue to function for longer periods of time, especially if it receives help from foreign powers to supplement a relative shortage of domestic resources.

What we have experienced, the Boko Haram uprising in Borno over the last six years. You, Jonathan, were responsible for our lives and possessions. If you do not protect our lives and property, you cannot talk about infrastructure, education and education. Safety is paramount. McCormick`s model[38] is designed as a counterinsurgency tool (COIN), but develops a symmetrical view of the actions needed for insurgents and COIN forces to succeed. In this way, the counterinsurgency model can show how insurgents and COIN forces succeed or fail. The strategies and principles of the model apply to both forces, so the extent to which forces follow the model should have a direct correlation with the success or failure of the insurgents or the COIN force. In her book Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in Salvador, Elisabeth Jean Wood explains that participants in high-risk activism are very aware of the costs and benefits of civil wars. [14] Wood suggests that “participants in the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign in the southern United States were at high risk of aggression when they challenged longstanding practices of racial exclusion in Mississippi.” There are many selective incentives that encourage uprisings and violent movements against autocratic political regimes.