While successful twentieth-century insurgencies developed some degree of hierarchy and a political wing, the Iraq insurgency remains a loose, amorphous network. The various components, and the subdivisions within them, do not appear to be centrally commanded.
虽然20世纪成功的叛乱建立起了一定程度的等级和一支政治派别，但伊拉克现今的叛乱仍然是松散而缺乏组织性的。其内部的不同组织和派别似乎并没有集中的指挥。有些会相互合作，而有些则不然。