Sentences with phrase «asymmetric warfare»

Asymmetric warfare refers to a type of conflict where one side has significantly more power, resources, or traditional military strength compared to the other. The weaker side in this form of warfare usually relies on unconventional tactics, such as guerrilla warfare, terrorism, or cyber attacks, to compensate for their disadvantage. Full definition
Unlike the pilots, the victims of asymmetric warfare by the rich on the poor will not be around to help with their children's schoolwork.
This submission is predicated on the fact that asymmetric warfare which the Boko Haram is prosecuting against the Nigeria is not such that can be easily be stamped out by the Armed Forces.»
With the graduation, which took place on 23 February 2018, the NAF has so far trained well over 500 Special Forces personnel in asymmetric warfare in the past 6 months.
The history of warfare has always been a struggle between measures and countermeasures, and so it will be with asymmetric warfare.
Also speaking during his presentation, the Head of UNHCR Mr. Gabriel Idoko posited that the changes in warfare especially asymmetric warfare, such as the North East Operations had necessitated the need to protect the rights of the unarmed civilians and compliance with rules of engagements by the Armed Forces in order to avoid violations of the laid down local and international human right laws.
@SamIam From what Bezmenov says I gather that the KGB were not trying to spread communism for idealistic reasons, but rather using it opportunistically as a weapon to subvert culture, waging asymmetric warfare against the west.
The only difference is that in this case, the definition of what specifically constitutes an enemy combatant is shifting away from early - 20th - century idea of a uniformed member of an official state army, to include asymmetric warfare guerrilla fighters and their leaders despite not being associated with a specific officially recognized state.
For example, adaptive learning technology is used by NASA for simulation training, safety models, and has been used in various branches of the U.S. military, including the Army Learning Concept 2015, that trains and educates soldiers for asymmetric warfare.
Since they are not able to copy U.S. weapons (indeed, even our technically advanced allies have been slow to do so), they are led to the development of asymmetric warfare techniques.
In this sharply written book, El Akkad explores asymmetric warfare, climate change, rebellion, extrajudicial torture, refugees, and the ethics of unmanned drones raining death and destruction on innocent civilians.
«The threats will reduce hopefully even though the nature of asymmetric warfare is also well understood,» he said.
«We are going to continue the observation of our unannounced cessation of hostilities in the Niger Delta against all interest of the multinational oil corporations, but we will continuously adopt our asymmetric warfare during this period if, the Nigerian government and the ruling APC continue to use security agencies / agents, formations and politicians to arrest, intimidate, invade and harass innocent citizens, suspected NDA members and invade especially Ijaw communities.»
The Executive Secretary of Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), Air Commodore Anas recently disclosed that there is nothing wrong in imposing targets on the military but due to the asymmetric warfare which Boko Haram is prosecuting against civilian «soft targets» the December deadline is unrealistic.
But if Cameron is to convince us that he intends to serve a full term and keep a lid on the asymmetric warfare of the Tories — it's not just Osborne / Gove versus May but Boris Johnson undermining May also — then maybe he needs a big idea.
«We understand the challenges across the spectrum of asymmetric warfare,» Nigeria's chief of army staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, said on Wednesday at the headquarters of operations against the militants in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
I like to think of this approach as «asymmetric warfare»: a small entity exerting disproportionate influence over a much larger, stronger entity.
Alan Wilson, Tripwire: Modern warfare, bad takes on asymmetric warfare (i.e CT / COIN), immensely expensive scripted story - line pieces with dodgy voice acting.
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