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Asymmetric warfare (or asymmetric engagement) is a type of war between belligerents whose relative military power, strategy or tactics differ significantly. This type of warfare often, but not necessarily, involves insurgents, terrorist groups, or resistance militias operating within territory mostly controlled by the superior force.
Asymmetrical warfare is a 2015 science fiction short story written by S.R. Algernon and published in Nature. It was a finalist for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Short Story . [ 1 ]
The Asymmetric Warfare Group was a United States Army special mission unit [2] [3] [4] created during the War on Terrorism to mitigate various threats with regard to asymmetric warfare. The unit was headquartered at Fort Meade , Maryland and had a training facility (the Asymmetric Warfare Training Center) at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia which was ...
In modern warfare, to take into account that to some extent both linear and the square apply often, an exponent of 1.5 is used. [11] [12] [3]: 7-5–7-8 Lanchester's laws have also been used to model guerrilla warfare. [13] The laws have also been applied to repeat battles with a range of inter-battle reinforcement strategies. [14]
Unlike the previous guerrilla campaign in 1961–1970, waged by Barzani, the 1974 war was a Kurdish attempt at symmetric warfare against the Iraqi Army, which eventually led to the quick collapse of the Kurds, who were lacking advanced and heavy weaponry.
"Armed Conflict Report 2002, Philippines-CPP/NPA" (Archived November 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; PDF). "U.S. Department of State – Philippine Communist Party Designated Foreign Terrorist Group". "New People's Army" (archived from the original on February 25, 2008). Extract of article about NPA's tactics and strategy, May 2006 (full ...
These continued a tradition of Greek-Hellenistic warfare and tacticians that stretched back to Xenophon and Aeneas Tacticus, late Hellenistic military manuals adapted and applied for the needs and realities of the Byzantine army, most of them deriving from the wide corpus of ancient Greek and late Hellenistic authors, especially Aelian, [1 ...
Unlike the previous guerilla campaign, waged by Barzani, the 1974 war was an attempt for symmetric warfare against the Iraqi Army, which eventually led to the quick collapse of the Kurds, lacking advanced and heavy weaponry. The war ended with the exile of the Iraqi KDP and between 7,000 and 20,000 deaths on both sides.