FM 30-104 armed forces, police, or other internal security forces. h. Insurgent War. A struggle between a constituted government and organized insurgents frequently supported from without, but acting violently from within, against the political, social, economic, military and civil vulnerabilities of the regime to bring about its internal destruction or overthrow. Such wars are distinguished from lesser insurgencies by the gravity of the threat to the government 4 and the insurgent objective of eventual regional or national control. i. Regular Forces. Those insurgent units which have a typical military organization, use conventional tactics, and are directly controlled by an in-country central committee. j. Revolution. The overthrow or renunciation of one government, ruler, or social system and the substitution of another. k. Revolutionary Warfare.
DesignationFM 30-104
EditionSep 1967
StatusSuperseded
Pages89
FunctionRecon Intel
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)