re: #514 Belafon

And I stand corrected as well: en.wikipedia.org.

After reading that, insurgency has nothing to do with the quality of the opposition. Instead, it’s a political distinction.

Here’s what that article said when referring to the Civil War:

Where a revolt takes the form of armed rebellion, it may not be viewed as an insurgency if a state of belligerency exists between one or more sovereign states and rebel forces. For example, during the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America was not recognized as a sovereign state, but it was recognized as a belligerent power, and thus Confederate warships were given the same rights as United States warships in foreign ports.