Total War

A group of militants launching assassination-like attacks against military personnel and targets and NOT blindly or randomly attacking civilian targets or personnel in my opinion doesn't qualify as terror.

Now someone on the British side may argue, and have a point. But this is my opinion. Slaughtering civilians with car bombs because they're Protestant OR Catholic, or opening fire into crowds of civilians with automatic weapons because they're parading through your neighborhood... We're getting a picture here right? Collins waged a war with all he had. The IRA later on waged a war of self-perpetuation, as did the Protestant groups.

Does that answer the question? Even the debacle that was the Easter Rebellion was an attack and an attempted hold of a government postal building... Not a bomb at a railway station or a jammed market.

Have to get ready for work, more later.