I keep hearing the term “asymmetric warfare” in the press, and on the lips of pundits. From the US Army journal “Parameters” comes this analysis:
The term du jour for future military operations is “asymmetric warfare”; ironically, it’s a concept as old as warfare itself. For centuries, even millennia, weaker opponents have sought to neutralize their enemy’s technological or numerical superiority by fighting in ways or on battlefields that nullify it. It is the human dimension of man’s oldest profession… .
