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asymmetrical warfare

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noun

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

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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 • Mar. 4, 2024

This is the nature of old media versus new and one can see it played out as a kind of asymmetrical warfare.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2014

But unlike in the Cold War, there are now a much larger number of asymmetrical warfare techniques.

From Reuters • Nov. 6, 2012

The pukka Englishman in Arab dress developed highly successful tactics of hit and run, using a small, mobile force, in what would now be called asymmetrical warfare.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2010

Harry Harris, then the commander at Guantanamo, not only declared the deaths "suicides," but blamed the victims for "an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2010