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Asymmetric warfare originally referred to war between two or more actors or groups whose relative power differs significantly. Contemporary military thinkers tend to broaden this to include asymmetry of strategy or tactics; today "asymmetric warfare" can describe a military situation in which two Belligerent s of unequal power interact and attempt to exploit each other's characteristic weaknesses. Such struggles often involve strategies and tactics of Unconventional Warfare , the "weaker" combatants attempting to use strategy to offset deficiencies in quantity or quality.


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