First circulated in the summer of 1964, it held that externally supported insurgencies could be stopped only by military action against the sources of external support, through a series of escalating measures intended to impart maximum psychological blows.
Since founding, Pakistan has supported insurgencies and terrorism, training and funding groups as a tool of warfare against a burgeoning giant next door, India.
It's worth remembering that there are natural, global immigration flows to High Development Index countries (consider Germany, France, Australia, Canada and Great Britain); not to mention the political ramifications of past and present occupations, supported insurgencies or outright aggression.
Maliki's purges of the Sunni leadership discredited or removed Sunni leaders willing to play the inside game, and pushed some of them toward supporting insurgency.
Pakistan saw every Indian gain in Afghanistan as a direct threat to its own interests and believed that India in connivance with the anti-Pakistan Afghan government was using its strongholds in Afghanistan to support insurgency and terrorism in Pakistan.
John McCain's policy of "rogue rollback," which involves supporting insurgency movements against rogue regimes, plays great on the campaign trail, but it would create an awful mess on the 38th parallel.
In 1995, when the writer and campaigner Ken Saro-wasa was executed by the military alongside eight other activists from the oil-rich Ogoniland, Nas defended the government's action, accusing foreign governments of supporting insurgency.
Poor relations between states may motivate governments to support insurgencies in rival countries, and civil wars may in turn promote military conflict between states for example, as a result of border violations or alleged support for insurgents.
