Excerpt from Insurgency: Lectures Delivered at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, August, 1900Authorities do not agree as to what constitutes war. There is still less agreement as to the grounds justifying a recognition of belligerency. The opportunities for legitimate differences of opinion as to the nature of hostilities, prior to the recognition of belligerency, are very great.From war in the full sense, i. E., the condition of armed hostility between states, which is a fact easily recognized, down to the unarmed struggle between individuals of the same state, there are many grades of con¿ict. At a point between the struggle of state with state and of individual with individual, there is a form of struggle, varying according to circumstances, but usually an armed struggle between two organized groups or parties within a state for public political ends, which is called insurgency. The party opposing that in possession of the existing state organization is usually regarded as rebelling against the state and is called insur gent. The status of the insurgent party and the persons com posing it has received relatively little definition. The treatment of insurgents has been so diverse as to make it impossible to claim that usage is fully established among civilized states.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.