Unconventional warfare
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Unconventional warfare (abbreviated UW) is the opposite of conventional warfare. Whereas conventional warfare is used to reduce the opponent's military capability using conventional weapons (rifles, grenades, etc.) and battlefield tactics, unconventional warfare is an attempt to achieve military victory through acquiescence, capitulation, or clandestine support for one side of an existing conflict.
On the surface, UW contrasts with conventional warfare in that forces or objectives are covert or not well-defined, tactics and weapons intensify environments of subversion or intimidation, and the general or long-term goals are coercive or subversive to a political body.
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See also
- Asymmetric warfare
- Hybrid warfare
- Fourth generation warfare
- Irregular military
- Irregular Warfare
- Low intensity conflict
- Partisan (military)
- Political Warfare
- Psychological warfare
- Resistance movement
- Terrorism
- Unrestricted Warfare
- A seminal work on unconventional stay-behind warfare is Major Hans von Dach's Der Totale Widerstand (Total Resistance (book)).
- Six-legged Soldiers - A scientific warfare book on another potential form of unconventional warfare, by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
US & NATO specific:
- Operation Gladio
- Project Eldest Son
- Reagan Doctrine
- Special Activities Division
- U.S. Army Special Forces
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