asymmetrical warfare

British  

noun

1. warfare between a powerful military force and a weak guerilla force

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Example Sentences

Next month, it plans to commission its third and fourth domestically designed and built stealth corvettes to counter the Chinese navy as ptensions art of a strategy of asymmetrical warfare, in which a smaller force counters its larger opponent by using cutting edge or nonconventional tactics and weaponry.

From Seattle Times

Next month it plans to commission its third and fourth domestically designed and built stealth corvettes to counter the Chinese navy. as part of a strategy of asymmetrical warfare in which a smaller force counters its larger opponent by using cutting edge or nonconventional tactics and weaponry.

From Seattle Times

Stewart began the segment with a faux nervous disclaimer, acknowledging that there were only so many yuks one can wring out of circumstances related to the horror of asymmetrical warfare.

From Salon

Harris, the top base official, promptly told reporters that the deaths were the result of suicides, calling them “an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”

From Washington Post

Remember "counterinsurgency" and "asymmetrical warfare?"

From Salon