… Our objective is to review the recent empirical literature on irregular insurgency, which …
the relationship of that framework with the literature, both current and classic; speculate on the …

… insurgency against the powers of classical empire, and, most obviously, in its anxiety to find
a legitimate ground for all claims to knowledge about the world, … or empiricist social science? …

… Our immediate enemies were the empiricists who controlled the oppressive definition of
sociological method. Our primary opposition was to those forces which excluded our practice of …

… While it is possible that these cases had high levels of selective insurgent violence, we think
it is unlikely that the Vietcong did a lot of selective killing in their own strongholds. Nothing in …

… the insurgent-backed political party, the Patriotic Union (UP), were more likely to leave the
city … However, residents of the nearby rural communities that supported the UP were the least …

… weakening the insurgency, and to target insurgents … the counter-insurgency literature on
the role of the populace. One view is that the government and the insurgency compete for the …

… The authors identify several potential explanations, introducing the notion of insurgent
precision to adjudicate between the … costs on the other, account for the negative correlation …

… In particular, the conceptual apparatus of the article will draw … place the world and the
empirical before the conceptual … are radical empiricists, in that objects in the world force us to …

… amount of manpower employed is commonly thought to affect the outcomes of insurgencies,
I incorporate a measure of the counterinsurgent troops/population.Footnote 70 I also …

… insurgent attacks relative to control villages. In addition, commonly cited “triggers” for
insurgent retaliation, including the … correlated with insurgent attacks or statistically insignificant. …