Asymmetric Warfare

Extracted Attributes

• Definition

  Warfare in which belligerents are mismatched in military capabilities or accustomed methods of engagement.

• Strategic Levels

  Operational (ruses, terrorism), Military Strategic (guerrilla warfare), and Political Strategic (moral/religious war).

• Key Geographic Hub

  Silicon Valley, California (Defense Startups).

• Modern Key Technologies

  Autonomous Drones, Computer Vision, Electronic Warfare, EMP (electromagnetic pulsing).

• Major Manufacturing Competitor

  China (Dominance in autonomous drone production).

Timeline

• Richard Norton-Taylor publishes 'Asymmetric Warfare' in The Guardian, discussing the concept in the context of post-9/11 global security. (Source: Web Search Result 5)

  2001-10-03

• Publication of 'Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction' by Praeger, analyzing homeland defense strategies. (Source: Web Search Result 2)

  2002-01-01

• The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) provides online resources regarding asymmetric threats and interoperability. (Source: Web Search Result 2)

  2004-07-06

• The Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) emphasizes that the nature of warfare has changed, requiring unconventional and indirect approaches. (Source: Web Search Result 3)

  2006-01-01

• S.R. Algernon publishes a science fiction short story titled 'Asymmetric Warfare'. (Source: Wikidata Q130130618)

  2015-01-01

• All-In Podcast Episode 174 discusses the rise of drone warfare as a modern form of asymmetric warfare and its impact on Silicon Valley defense startups. (Source: Document 4c5de0a5-dd79-4c87-a779-a3d6454db132)

  2024-04-12

Web Search Results

• Asymmetric Warfare: A state vs non-state conflict*

  Palabras clave: asimetría, guerra, estrate-gia, actor no estatal, terrorismo. [...] Guerras asimétricas: un conflicto entre Estado versus actores no estatales Resumen La asimetría en la guerra no es un fenómeno nuevo. Históricamente, se ha observado que en varias ocasiones ha existido una marcada diferencia en el relativo poder militar y estra-tégico de Estados en guerra. Sin embargo, en la era pos 9/11, se ha observado que el carácter y la naturaleza de la guerra está cambiando, particularmente en las guerras entre actores estatales y no estatales. El uso de herramientas y [...] Key words: Asymmetric, warfare, strate-gy, non-state actor, terrorism.

• Asymmetrical warfare: humanitarian law & action

  Asymmetrical warfare In a sense, all warfare is asymmetrical as there are never identical belligerents. Asymmetric warfare can be fought at different levels and can take different forms. There is an operational level (including ruses, covert operations, perfidy, terrorism, etc.), a military strategic level (guerrilla warfare, massive retaliation, Blitzkrieg, etc.) and a political strategic level (moral or religious war, clash of cultures).5 The different forms include asymmetry of power, means, [...] T. Pfanner – Asymmetrical warfare 152 The term “symmetrical warfare” is generally understood to mean clas­ sic armed conflict between States of roughly equal military strength.7 The wars that took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — i.e. after the Peace of Westphalia — in which evenly matched government troops confronted and fought each other in open battles have sometimes been called a thing of the past, for in the twentieth century wars became more complex and more unequal. [...] Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Defending the U.S. Homeland. Praeger, Westport, 2002; The Four Thrusts Meet Asymmetric Threat, Attack Database, Achieve Interoperability, Revitalize Work Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, 2001, available online at: < index.html> (visited on 6 July 2004); The First War of the 21st Century: Asymmetric Hostilities and the Norms of Conduct, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Working Paper No. 364, Australian National

• LWP-58-Defining-Asymmetric-Warfare.pdf

  Colonel Robert Shaw, the first commanding officer of the U.S. Army’s new Asymmetric Warfare Group, defines asymmetric warfare as such: Warfare in which the two or more belligerents are mismatched in their military capabilities or accustomed methods of engagement such that the militarily disadvantaged power must press its special advantages or . . . its enemy’s particular weaknesses if they are to prevail.52 Shaw points out that the same definition could apply to any country, not just the United [...] capabilities, asymmetric tactics, asymmetric approaches and, in one instance, actually uses the term “asymmetric warfare,” albeit parenthetically: “Irregular (Asymmetric) Warfare.”18 The 2006 QDR demonstrates that the strategic thinkers within the Pentagon grasp the fact that the current war illustrates how the nature of warfare itself has changed: This war requires the U.S. military to adopt unconventional and indirect approaches. [...] Thoughts and Discussion on Asymmetry The asymmetric nature of all warfare. The first and greatest critique of the concept of asymmetry in warfare is the one posed by Sun Tzu and Liddell Hart: Is not all warfare asymmetric? If all warfare is based on deception, if one looks for the indirect approach, does one not always strive for asymmetry even in conventional warfare? The answer to 14 this simple question is yes, but the actual concept of asymmetric warfare brings much more to the

• XVII Asymmetric Warfare: How to Respond?

  Asymmetric Warfare: How to Respond? must not be forgotten that in any war or armed conflict there is a considerable element of surprise that makes it impossible to predict its course or outcome. The enemy may employ methods, strategies or tactics not envisaged and that aim at the opponent’s vulnerabilities. Asymmetry, therefore, is not a “novel” phenomenon as some would characterize it but an intrinsic characteristic of any war. 9It therefore seems that the term “asymmetric warfare,” which is [...] Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg Asymmetric Actors (Participatory Asymmetries) [...] Asymmetric Warfare: How to Respond? amounting to an international armed conflict irrespective of the political or strate-gic goals pursued and irrespective of the legality of the resort to armed force by ei-ther of the belligerents. 18 Therefore moral or normative asymmetries are, in principle, irrelevant, although they may have considerable political and strategic impact. This also holds true for a resort to the use of armed force authorized or mandated by the UN Security Council. As

• [PDF] Asymmetric Strategies as Strategies of the Strong - USAWC Press

  13. Thornton, Asymmetric Warfare, 4-5. Thornton notes that “it is useful to point out that asym - metric techniques can also be applied by the stronger power,” and then underscores “the importance of the asymmetric threat today—from both state and sub-state actors.” But see also page 76: “The real threat . . . is from the weak state asymmetric adversary.” Why is the “real threat” not from the strong state asymmetric adversary? Michael Breen and Joshua A. Geltzer 54 Parameters [...] 3. Richard Norton-Taylor, “Asymmetric Warfare,” The Guardian , 3 October 2001, guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/03/afghanistan.socialsciences (accessed June 16, 2011), and Colin S. Gray, “Thinking Asymmetrically in Times of Terror.” Parameters . Vol. 32, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 5-14. “Excluding the shared American and Soviet cold war concept of MAD—mutually assured destruction—all warfare has been asymmetric, says Phillip Wilkinson of King’s College, London,” [...] Institute, 2001). Metz and Johnson, 1. Compare this similar, if more convoluted, definition, in Meigs, 4: “Asymmetry means the absence of a common basis of comparison in respect to a quality, or in operational terms, a capability.” 5. Barnett, Roger W, Asymmetrical Warfare: Today’s Challenge to U.S. Military Power (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2003), 15. 6. Rod Thornton, Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007), 1.

• Instance Of

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