ABSTRACT
The Sarawak insurgency, which relied on bases in Indonesia during its infancy, is an example, as is the situation in Spanish Sahara. Insurgency can be defined as a struggle between a nonruling group and the ruling authorities in which the former consciously employs political resources and instruments of violence to establish legitimacy for some aspect of the political system it considers illegitimate. In conspiracies the organizational effort necessary for coordinating both violent and nonviolent activity is not as demanding as in an internal war setting, since there is far less concern with linking the insurgency to the mass population. Turning to the violent aspect of insurgency, one can identify different forms of warfare. An aspect of environment that seems to have more bearing on the fortunes of an insurgency than weather is the state of the transportation- communications network. Organizational failings can conceivably be rectified and the insurgency may then evolve toward guerrilla warfare.
