Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
Present asymmetrical advantages to the enemy before he presents asymmetrical advantages to you.
Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.
When giants fought, ants were crushed.
In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.
How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
