QPME: Small Wars and Irregular Warfare

" ... achieving victory for an insurgent may depend less on defeating an armed opponent and more on a group’s ability to garner support for its political interests (often ideologically based) and to generate enough violence to achieve political consequences."
 

—Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies, FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5

Portion of map of Central America, the West Indies South America and portions of the United States and Mexico.
United Fruit Company, 1909. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 

Political map of Afghanistan, 2008. 
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin.