Asymmetric warfare (or asymmetric engagement). Ukraine's audacious asymmetric attack on Russia inspires Taiwan

 Ukraine's audacious asymmetric attack on Russia inspires Taiwan

Asymmetric warfare (or asymmetric engagement) is a type of war between belligerents whose relative military power, strategy or tactics differ significantly. This type of warfare often, but not necessarily, involves insurgents, terrorist groups, or resistance militias operating within territory mostly controlled by the superior force.^[1][2][3]

Asymmetrical warfare can also describe a conflict in which belligerents' resources are uneven, and consequently, they both may attempt to exploit each other's relative weaknesses. Such struggles often involve unconventional warfare, with the weaker side attempting to use strategy to offset deficiencies in the quantity or quality of their forces and equipment.^[4] Such strategies may not necessarily be militarized.^[5] This is in contrast to symmetrical warfare, where two powers have comparable military power, resources, and rely on similar tactics.

Asymmetric warfare is a form of irregular warfare – conflicts in which enemy combatants are not regular military forces of nation-states. The term is frequently used to describe what is also called guerrilla warfare, insurgency, counterinsurgency, rebellion, terrorism, and counterterrorism.

非對稱戰爭（或稱非對稱交戰）是指交戰雙方在相對軍事實力、戰略或戰術上有顯著差異的戰爭類型。這類戰爭通常（但不一定）涉及叛亂分子、恐怖組織或抵抗民兵，這些武裝力量主要在優勢力量控制的領土內活動。 [1][2][3]

非對稱戰爭也可以指交戰雙方資源不均衡的衝突，因此雙方都可能試圖利用對方的相對弱點。這類鬥爭通常涉及非常規戰爭，弱勢一方試圖運用策略來彌補其軍隊和裝備數量或品質上的不足。 [4] 此類戰略不一定是軍事化的。 [5] 這與對稱戰爭形成對比，對稱戰爭中兩個大國擁有相當的軍事實力和資源，並採用類似的戰術。

非對稱戰爭是一種非常規戰爭，即敵方戰鬥人員並非民族國家的正規軍。這個術語經常用於描述所謂的遊擊戰、叛亂、反叛亂、叛亂、恐怖主義和反恐怖主義。