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[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Using the teachings of [[Sun Tzu]] to warfare, all warfare is asymmetric because one exploits an enemy’s strengths while attacking his weaknesses.<ref>[https://www.ausa.org/publications/defining-asymmetric-warfare DEFINING ASYMMETRIC WARFARE], Association of the United States Army</ref>]]
[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Using the teachings of [[Sun Tzu]] to warfare, all warfare is asymmetric because one exploits an enemy's strengths while attacking his weaknesses.<ref>[https://www.ausa.org/publications/defining-asymmetric-warfare DEFINING ASYMMETRIC WARFARE], Association of the United States Army</ref>]]
'''Asymmetrical warfare''' involves "unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of belligerent powers are not simply unequal but are so significantly different that they cannot make the same sorts of attacks on each other. "<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/asymmetrical-warfare Asymmetrical warfare], Britannica</ref>
'''Asymmetrical warfare''' involves "unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of belligerent powers are not simply unequal but are so significantly different that they cannot make the same sorts of attacks on each other. "<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/asymmetrical-warfare Asymmetrical warfare], Britannica</ref>
Encyclopædia Britannica indicates:
{{Cquote|[[Guerrilla warfare]], occurring between lightly armed partisans and a conventional army, is an example of asymmetrical warfare. [[Terrorism|Terrorist]] tactics, such as hijackings and suicide bombings, are also considered to be asymmetrical, both because they tend to involve a smaller, weaker group attacking a stronger one and also because attacks on civilians are by definition one-way warfare. War between a country that is both able and willing to use nuclear weapons and a country that is not would be another example of asymmetrical warfare.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/asymmetrical-warfare Asymmetrical warfare], Britannica</ref>}}
{{Cquote|[[Guerrilla warfare]], occurring between lightly armed partisans and a conventional army, is an example of asymmetrical warfare. [[Terrorism|Terrorist]] tactics, such as hijackings and suicide bombings, are also considered to be asymmetrical, both because they tend to involve a smaller, weaker group attacking a stronger one and also because attacks on civilians are by definition one-way warfare. War between a country that is both able and willing to use nuclear weapons and a country that is not would be another example of asymmetrical warfare.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/asymmetrical-warfare Asymmetrical warfare], Britannica</ref>}}
Using the teachings of [[Sun Tzu]] to warfare, all warfare is asymmetric because one exploits an enemy’s strengths while attacking his weaknesses.<ref>[https://www.ausa.org/publications/defining-asymmetric-warfare DEFINING ASYMMETRIC WARFARE], Association of the United States Army</ref>
Using the teachings of [[Sun Tzu]] to warfare, all warfare is asymmetric because one exploits an enemy's strengths while attacking his weaknesses.<ref>[https://www.ausa.org/publications/defining-asymmetric-warfare DEFINING ASYMMETRIC WARFARE], Association of the United States Army</ref>
"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak." - Sun Tzu
"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak." - Sun Tzu