{"id":6857,"date":"2026-01-14T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:30:06","slug":"asymmetric-wars-character-and-peculiarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"Asymmetric wars: character and peculiarities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_yt2gk8byy\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_gjp1dpzpeg\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_half\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\" data-animation=\"fadeInLeft\" data-delay=\"0\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6841\" src=\"http:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bakur-Aghajanyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1063\" height=\"1417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bakur-Aghajanyan.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bakur-Aghajanyan-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bakur-Aghajanyan-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bakur-Aghajanyan-580x773.jpg 580w, https:\/\/haykakanbanak.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bakur-Aghajanyan-860x1146.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1063px) 100vw, 1063px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_3mk5cw1dr\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_half\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>B. M. AGHAJANYAN, Colonel, Head, Center for Military Strategic Studies, <\/strong><strong>INSS, NDRU, MOD, RA <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than half of the wars which waged amid and post-Cold War era pertain to asymmetric warfare. Those are wars, the parties of which possess completely diverse military capacities, employ strategies and tactics, as well as means and methods for military operations, varying from each other, and in the sphere of international relations act in different statuses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among <em>the characteristic <\/em><em>features of the<\/em><em> asymmetric warfare<\/em> we can mark out the following: in terms of <em>the applied tactics<\/em> \u2013 guerrilla wars, information warfare, terrorism, the use of geopolitical levers, funding and providing with armaments and military equipment, making use of the civilian infrastructure; in terms of <em>inherent characteristics<\/em> \u2013 force imbalance, exploiting the enemy (the weak party not only uses its strength and the enemy\u2019s weaknesses, but also makes \u201cfriction of war\u201d for the latter), the motivation of parties on various degrees, the determination of the weak party to fight till the end; in terms of<em> the ethics<\/em> \u2013 the weak party oversteps all the moral and ethical norms that regulate the conduct of warfare and that most advanced countries adhere to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suicidal terroristic acts serve as a source of acute moral and ethical problems related to asymmetric warfare. Likewise, an arduous task is the organization of effective counter-guerrilla warfare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When interpreting the character of asymmetric warfare the hypothesis that the strong party (the state) usually holds the concept of traditional (conventional) strategies, i. e., direct actions, and the weak party \u2013 asymmetric ones, i. e., indirect actions, is highly prioritized. With that, when juxtaposing homogeneous strategies (direct \u2013 direct, indirect \u2013 indirect), the strong party makes progress quite soon, while in case of contrasting heterogeneous strategies (direct \u2013 indirect), it is the weak party that reaches success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consequently, the theory of asymmetric warfare (conflicts), having become progressively popular, essentially changes the traditional perceptions of military power and weakness, interpreting Clausewitz\u2019s thesis on the correlation of the material and the spiritual in the military affairs anew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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