The phrase "asymmetrical war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conflict where the opposing forces have unequal military capabilities or strategies, often seen in guerrilla warfare or terrorism.
Example: "The ongoing conflict in the region has evolved into an asymmetrical war, with one side employing unconventional tactics against a more powerful adversary."
Alternatives: "asymmetrical conflict" or "uneven warfare".
He added, "We're fighting an asymmetrical war".
In an asymmetrical war, he said, the emphasis had to be on making American foreign policy conform to that formula.
"She is fighting a conventional war and he is fighting an asymmetrical war, and I don't think that bodes well for her," said Terry Sullivan, a Republican strategist.
In this sort of asymmetrical war, Israel's army cannot catch every young Palestinian who is willing to blow himself up in a pizza parlour or spray machinegun fire at a wedding party.
They stoked fears that, as an uprising that began peacefully transforms into a grinding, asymmetrical war, Syria could become an arena for forces that neither the government nor the opposition fully controls.
"This is an asymmetrical war, and there is a degree of expansion of violations of international law on both sides that seems to be escalating," the European Union official, Kristalina Georgieva, the commissioner for international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, said at a news conference.
Both America and Britain have felt the sting of freelance asymmetrical war-makers not associated with a particular state but with a transnational religious cause that uses potent small arms and explosives to unravel western societies and confound their defences.
He blames the Geneva Convention's drafters for not knowing detainees of modern "asymmetrical" wars would need rougher treatment.
Is his bewildering parenting a symptom of P.T.S.D.? I just don't think the immersive training that soldiers get in asymmetrical wars, like Vietnam and Afghanistan, prepares them for domestic life, at all.
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The question of Palestine is at the root of the asymmetrical wars that Israel has been facing in recent years, not only against Hamas, Qatar's Palestinian client, but also against Hezbollah, Iran's proxy in the region.
