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  2. Category:Guerrilla wars - Wikipedia

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    This is a Category for guerrilla wars - i.e. ones that were characterised by small scale, hit and run warfare rather than conventional warfare, which is characterised by the holding of territory and pitched battles. There may be some overlap, as some wars may have started as guerrilla wars and finished as conventional wars.

  3. List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers

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    Planning for global territorial expansion of the Axis powers; Germany, Italy and Japan, progressed before and during the Second World War. This included some special strike plans against the Allied nations (with similar intentions to the James Doolittle raid special Allied Strike).

  4. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Iron Calculus of War – Resistance = Means x Will – Clausewitz; Moral ascendancy – Moral force is the trump card for any military event because as events change, the human elements of war remain unchanged – Du Piq; OODA loop – Decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe-orient-decide-act. An entity (whether an individual or ...

  5. Guerrilla warfare - Wikipedia

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    Guerrilla warfare during the Peninsular War, by Roque Gameiro, depicting a Portuguese guerrilla ambush against French forces. Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run ...

  6. Asymmetric warfare - Wikipedia

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    The Kosovo War, which pitted Yugoslav security forces (Serbian police and Yugoslav army) against Albanian separatists of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army, is an example of asymmetric warfare, due to Yugoslav forces' superior firepower and manpower, and due to the nature of insurgency/counter-insurgency operations.

  7. Unconventional warfare - Wikipedia

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    Unconventional warfare (UW) is broadly defined as "military and quasi-military operations other than conventional warfare" [1] and may use covert forces or actions such as subversion, diversion, sabotage, espionage, biowarfare, sanctions, propaganda or guerrilla warfare. This is typically done to avoid escalation into conventional warfare as ...

  8. Category:Warfare by type - Wikipedia

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    This category organizes articles on warfare by the (primarily geographical or technological) "type" of warfare involved. Please see the category guidelines for more information. The main articles for this category are War § Types of warfare and Outline of war § Types of war .

  9. List of guerrilla movements - Wikipedia

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    Polish resistance movement in World War II (many of these groups were a part of the Polish Underground State, the large guerrilla movement that initiated the Warsaw Uprising, as well as some other anti-Nazi partisan-warfare-based actions like the Zamość Uprising, the Battle of Osuchy, the Raid on Mittenheide, Operation Tempest, or Operation ...