Zone making -- Midfield wars -- Origins of violence -- Looking ahead -- Insurgency -- Organization -- Competitive origins -- Building trust -- Extracting resources -- The Weberian experiment failed -- Organizational inertia -- Ideology -- Fight for independence -- Inviting foreign pressure -- Domestic bargaining -- Strategy -- A border specialist -- Reaching out -- High premiums -- Back to Botan -- Counterinsurgency -- Organization -- Administrative solutions -- Specialist governance -- Redistricting -- Rural retreat -- Ideology -- Rural bias -- Foreign sponsors -- Developmentalist response -- The backup plan: co-optation model -- Strategy -- Locating the insurgent -- Sweep and strike -- Curbing civilian unrest -- No-entry zone -- Forging identities -- Path dependent origins -- Room for contingency.