ABSTRACT
THE PRECEDING two chapters have advanced the view that the collective characteristics of the Mobile Guard, and not simply the aggregated characteristics of its individual members, best explain its central role in the June repression. In associating political orientation with organizational experience, however, the argument has thus far concentrated on just one side of the June configuration of forces. Although Chorley's emphasis on the importance of authority relations, practical grievances, and isolation were derived from the study of regular military formations, their aptness in the case of a militia like the Mobile Guard suggests that they may also be of value in explaining the political orientation of insurgent groups where these satisfy minimal criteria of longevity and organizational definition.
