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THE "LEADERLESS RESISTANCE" CONCEPT HAS LONG BEEN A SUBJECT OF INTERNAL DEBATE WITHIN THE AMERICAN RADICAL RIGHT. IT EMERGED ORIGINALLY AS A PRESCRIPTION FOR IRREGULAR WARFARE AGAINST INVADING "COMMUNIST" TROOPS IN THE EARLY 1960'S. IN THE 1970'S AND EARLY 1980'S, IT WAS EMPLOYED BY A FEW OF THE MOST COMMITTED MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN RADICAL RIGHT AGAINST THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. THE TERM BECAME WIDELY KNOWN WITH THE PUBLICATION OF LOUIS BEAM'S "LEADERLESS RESISTANCE" IN 1992. IN THIS ARTICLE, THE AUTHOR TRACES THE HISTORY OF LEADERLESS RESISTANCE FROM ITS INCEPTION THROUGH ITS VARIOUS PERMUTATIONS IN THE DISPARATE IDEOLOGICAL CAMPS OF THE AMERICAN RADICAL RIGHT.

THE MURDER OF DR. DAVID GUNN, A DOCTOR WHO PERFORMED ABORTIONS, IN 1993 MADE A DECISIVE BREAK WITH THE PRO-LIFE RESCUE MOVEMENT'S 20-YEAR HISTORY OF NON-VIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST ABORTION IN AMERICA. THE ACT OPENED THE FLOODGATES TO OTHER VIOLENT ATTACKS ON DOCTORS, AND BROUGHT TO PUBLIC NOTICE A VIOLENT SPLINTER SECT OF THE LARGER MILLENARIAN SUBCULTURE DEDICATED TO THE RESCUE OF THE UNBORN. THIS ESSAY SEEKS TO DETAIL THE STAGES THROUGH WHICH THE RADICAL FRINGE OF THE RESCUE MOVEMENT PASSED BEFORE THEY CAME TO EMBRACE THE NECESSITY OF DEFENSIVE ACTION. THIS STUDY CONTRIBUTES TO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH A MILLENARIAN MOVEMENT TURNS FROM NON-VIOLENT WITNESS TO VIOLENT ACTIVISM.

THIS ARTICLE OFFERS A TYPOLOGY OF RADICAL RIGHT WING MOVEMENTS WHICH EMPHASIZES THEIR ROLES IN WHAT MAY BE TERMED AN OPPOSITIONAL COMMUNITY. THE EXAMINATION STRESSES BOTH THEIR INTERDEPENDENCE THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF COLIN CAMPBELL'S THEORY OF THE CULTIC MILIEU AND THE MOVEMENTS' ISOLATION FORM THE AMERICAN CULTURAL MAINSTREAM, A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF WHICH IS PROVIDED VIA MARTIN MARTY'S MAPPING THEORY. SECONDARILY, THE ARTICLE OFFERS SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FURTHER REFINEMENT OF EHUD SPRINZAK'S THEORY OF SPLIT DELEGITIMIZATION.

THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF THE RADICAL FACTION OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES KNOWN GENERICALLY AS THE RESCUE MOVEMENT IS UNIQUE IN THAT, OF THE WELTER OF RESURGENT RELIGIO-POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, VIRTUALLY NO SCHOLARLY ACCOUNT OF RESCUE USES THE LARGE BODY OF LITERATURE GENERATED BY THE RESCUERS THEMSELVES. SUCH AN APPROACH TO THE RESCUE MOVEMENT IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE IN THE WAKE OF THE KILLING OF DR DAVID GUNN IN FLORIDA ON 10 MARCH 1993, ALLEGEDLY AT THE HANDS OF A PERIPHERAL ADHERENT OF THE HOUSTON-BASED RESCUE AMERICA. SINCE THEN THE RESCUE MOVMENT HAS BEEN PORTRAYED AS AN UNUSUALLY VIOLENT FRINGE OF THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RIGHT.

We introduce the new, substantially updated, and revised version of the Dyadic Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) dataset. We discuss the underlying logic of constructing dyadic MIDs and demonstrate that these operations generate significant differences between the actual occurrence and properties of MID dyads and those extracted from machine-generated programs such as EUGene, or from the MID participant dataset. We provide some descriptive measures of dyadic MIDs over the period of 1816 to 2010 and compare some of the key dyadic results on the correlates of MIDs using different datasets. We discuss the theoretical and empirical implications of our results.

© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. We introduce the new, substantially updated, and revised version of the Dyadic Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) dataset. We discuss the underlying logic of constructing dyadic MIDs and demonstrate that these operations generate significant differences between the actual occurrence and properties of MID dyads and those extracted from machine-generated programs such as EUGene, or from the MID participant dataset. We provide some descriptive measures of dyadic MIDs over the period of 1816 to 2010 and compare some of the key dyadic results on the correlates of MIDs using different datasets. We discuss the theoretical and empirical implications of our results.