A technological revolution for counterinsurgency (and other forms of asymmetric and irregular conflict) should be based on robotics (including micro- and nano-robotics), nonlethality, and psychotechnology.

This is not a question only for the US, since other major powers may find themselves in asymmetric conflicts, but without as many other sensors as the US, especially space-based ones that are probably immune from attack by a low-technology opponent.

The Islamic Shia organization Hezbollah has also been a growing threat, against which the IDF fought an asymmetric conflict between 1982 and 2000, as well as a full-scale war in 2006.

He said that a study published by the United Nations showed "that the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in Gaza was by far the lowest in any asymmetric conflict in the history of warfare."

It's sort of the Moore's Law of asymmetric conflict.

Since 1950, however, weak actors have won a majority of all asymmetric conflicts.

To the Editor: Like all asymmetric conflicts, the continuing "debate" on abortion rights (front page, April 26) is not a true debate because there is little direct intellectual engagement between opponents.

Gérard Chaliand (born 15 February 1934) is a French expert in armed-conflict studies and in international and strategic relations, especially asymmetric conflicts (e.g., guerrillas, terrorism).

Reflecting the asymmetric conflict, the two leaders cannot make the same decisions.

In one organization Salter identified asymmetric conflict between managers as a stress factor, linking workplace emotions, biological response, and productivity.