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Our Database is an information hub on global political movements and insurgencies. Our writers are entirely neutral on all issues covered, and this archive does not in any way seek to condone violence or extremism. The journalistic objective of The Modern Insurgent is to create a purely informative database of scholarly articles and analyses of political movements.
Evan Berridge
Feb 19
Chin National Defense Force
The Chin National Defense Force (CNDF) is the armed wing of the Chin National Organization, a Chin ethnic armed organization in Myanmar.
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Giulio Rimondo
Feb 12
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)
Quwwāt al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī (قوات الحشد الشعبي), also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), is a paramilitary umbrella organization
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Orlando Miceli
Feb 6
Russian Penal Battalions in the Russo-Ukrainian War
"Shtorm" penal units recruited from Russian prisons have bolstered the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
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Patrick Pearson
Jan 17
United Wa State Army
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is an ethnic armed organization in Myanmar and the military wing of the United Wa State Party (UWSP).
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Alejandra Cabrera
Nov 28, 2024
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West
Insurgency Overview PEGIDA, short for "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West," first emerged on October 20, 2014, in...
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Riles Kiley
Nov 18, 2024
The American Nazi Party
Insurgency Overview The American Nazi Party (ANP) was a neo-Nazi organization founded in 1959 by George Lincoln Rockwell, a veteran Naval...
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Jeff Hanrahan
Oct 28, 2024
4B Movement
The 4B movement is a primarily online feminist movement in South Korea which seeks to withhold sex, dating, marriage and childbearing from m
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Orlando Miceli
Oct 24, 2024
Cossacks in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Cossacks have a centuries-long history in Ukraine and have fought countless wars in the region.
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Patrick Pearson
Oct 4, 2024
Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies
Insurgency Overview The Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies, known simply as the G9, is an alliance of gangs known for its...
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Ellie Newis
Sep 27, 2024
Qanon
Introduction & Overview Qanon is a decentralized, often violent group collected around an ideology that centers on an unfounded...
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Micah Hughey
Sep 18, 2024
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
The Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a self-proclaimed secular Palestinian Marxist-Lenninist and Socialist org.
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Ellie Newis
Sep 3, 2024
Mullah Dadullah Front
The Mullah Dadullah Front was an extreme insurgent faction of the Taliban in Afghanistan, named after a notoriously violent Taliban command
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Riles Kiley
Aug 7, 2024
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)
Insurgency Overview Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), or “Basque Homeland and Liberty” was a Basque nationalist and separatist organization...
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Jeff Hanrahan
Aug 2, 2024
Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
Barisan Revolusi Nasional (National Revolutionary Front, or BRN for short) is an Islamist separatist group in southern Thailand.
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