text: Insurgency Prerequisites and Fundamentals
  networked organization embedded in a sympathetic population. Differentiating between insurgents,
  insurgent supporters, neutrals, and the host-nation government supporters is difficult.
  4-92. Insurgencies can be viewed from an overall organizational perspective to the perspective of an
  individual. Networked insurgencies often have a great degree of internal complexity and this makes
  understanding networked insurgencies difficult. The relationship between two individuals or two groups in
  an insurgency may be hierarchal, based on a mutual peer to peer understanding, or a cultural understanding
  based upon social norms. Understanding the relationship between groups and individuals within groups is
  essential to understanding how an insurgency works and is a part of the overall intelligence preparation of
  the area of operations and understanding mission variables. This understanding starts with an individual
  level analysis.
  4-93. Individual-level analysis characterizes members within an organization, identifies its key members,
  describes the types of connections between members, and makes assumptions about unknown members.
  Commanders and staffs can describe individuals based on their network position in relation to the network
  position of other individuals in the network. A networked insurgency consists of individuals and
  connections between them. Commanders and staffs can think of the individuals in an insurgency as actors
  or nodes. The connections between nodes are called links. This connection between two people is called a
  dyad. Understanding the various types of dyads is essential in understanding the nature of an insurgency.
  Person A could be connected to Person B through a number a various types of connections and each type of
  relationship represents an important type of dyad. (See figure 4-4 for examples of some of types of dyads.)
  Figure 4-4. Examples of dyads
  4-94. Individual connections and new connections matter to an insurgency. For example, a marriage
  between a combatant and a member of the auxiliary opens new paths in a networked insurgency. Moreover,
  the success or lack of success of the couple will now be important. In other words, in this example, both
  individuals will be vested in one another, and other insurgents’ perceptions of them will be tied together.
  The nature of the bonds between individuals and decisions on who to create new relationships with have a
  future impact on both the insurgency and the individuals in the dyad.
  4-95. Commanders and staffs must understand the role individuals play in a networked insurgency. One
  node or a very few central nodes dominate a very centralized network. If these nodes are removed or
  damaged, the network may quickly fragment into unconnected subnetworks. Hubs are nodes with high