Asymmetric Threat

The possibility that a weak power will use surprise, deception, terrorism, new technologies, or some other unconventional method to defeat a strong power. Asymmetric threat poses a political risk to commerce.

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The exercise will help in developing combined response by PN and PLA (N) in the face of conventional as well as asymmetric threat to maritime interests of both countries.

PNS SAIF Participates in 5th Joint Pak-China Naval Exercise at Shanghai

The exercise will help in developing a combined response by the PN and PLA (N) in the face of conventional as well as an asymmetric threat to maritime interests of both countries.

Naval chief embarks on official visit to Turkey

The exercise will help in developing a combined response by PN and PLA (N) in the face of conventional as well as an asymmetric threat to maritime interests of both countries.

PNS SAIF participates in 5th joint Pak-China naval exercise at Shanghai

Considerable debate is ongoing within the political and military communities as to the kind of responses (military or otherwise) that should be developed to meet the challenges of asymmetric threat posed by such non-state actors.

Guerras asimetricas: un conflicto entre Estado versus actores no estatales

Both navies were engaged in various harbour and sea-based activities encompassing anti-piracy operations and asymmetric threat at sea.

Pakistan Navy Ship Tippu Sultan in Dubai for 4 days

The problem that besets the Korean Peninsula lies in the unavoidable fact that the ROK's vulnerability has increased as North Korea's asymmetric threat has expanded and diversified.

The Republic of Korea's counter-asymmetric strategy: lessons from ROKS Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island

The fluid, asymmetric threat environment we face today in Iraq will be quickly adopted by our enemies of the future.

MDMP in 3D: military decision making process and 21st century warfare

Such "information warfare" appears to be a leading asymmetric threat to Western-style democracies.

Treason of the Clerk

The threat environment expanded from a strategic, nuclear, symmetric threat from bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and air- or sea-launched cruise missiles to a continuing symmetric threat, and an emergent asymmetric threat, which was focused across all domains, borders, and agencies.

North American defense and security after 9/11

As a result, new knowledge was not created through effective information management and analysis processes so that this asymmetric threat could be anticipated and mitigated.

The information shortcomings of 9/11: one of the most important lessons of September 11, 2001, may be that informational--not organizational--solutions are necessary as organizations and governments evolve from the Information Age to the Intelligence Age

He followed up by helping to balance the support and training requirements of the unit, and he ran interference when necessary to allow the unit to train for a real asymmetric threat.

Every soldier a rifleman: although killing the enemy is not their primary mission, combat service support soldiers now face many of the same challenges encountered by their combat arms brethren

But, apart from the PRC's documented support for these state sponsors of terror, China on its own represents an asymmetric threat to America far greater than all of the "axis of evil" regimes (as President George W.

Harboring the enemy: while federal officials focus security measures on al-Qaeda and American citizens, Communist Chinese assets have free run of our ports, universities, and defense facilities

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