Article from Military Review with the author's stated purpose: "It is the purpose of this article to demonstrate the relevancy of new analytical criteria that will better enable a government to "fingerprint" an insurgency-and, in so doing, to better distinguish a truly qualitative insurgency from unsophisticated armed uprisings. It is also the purpose of this article to suggest that such criteria are neither esoteric nor removed from ready beneficial application."

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