Editing Asymmetric warfare (section)

===20th century===
====Second Boer War====
Asymmetric warfare featured prominently during the [[Second Boer War]]. After an initial phase, which was fought by both sides as a conventional war, the British captured [[Johannesburg]], the Boers' largest city, and captured the capitals of the two [[Boer Republics]]. The British then expected the Boers to accept peace as dictated in the traditional European manner. However, the Boers fought a protracted [[Guerilla warfare|guerrilla war]] instead of capitulating. 20,000-30,000{{Ambiguous|date = January 2015}} Boer guerrillas were only defeated after the British brought to bear 450,000 imperial troops, about ten times as many as were used in the [[Conventional warfare|conventional]] phase of the war. The British began constructing [[blockhouses]] built within [[machine gun]] range of one another and flanked by [[barbed wire]] to slow the Boers' movement across the countryside and block paths to valuable targets. Such tactics eventually evolved into today's [[counterinsurgency]] tactics.<ref name="Dobbie">{{cite journal|title=The Word 'Commando'|first=Elliott V. K.|last=Dobbie|journal=American Speech|volume=19|number=2|date=April 1944|pages=81–90|doi=10.2307/487007 |jstor=487007 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/487007}}</ref>

The Boer commando raids deep into the [[Cape Colony]], which were organized and commanded by [[Jan Smuts]], resonated throughout the century as the British adopted and adapted the tactics first used against them by the Boers.<ref name="Dobbie"/>

====World War I====
*[[Lawrence of Arabia|T. E. Lawrence]] and British support for the [[Arab Revolt|Arab uprising]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The Ottomans were the stronger power, and the Arab coalition were the weaker.
*[[Austria-Hungary]]'s [[Serbian Campaign of World War I|invasion of Serbia]], August 1914. Austria-Hungary was the stronger power, and Serbia was the weaker.
*[[German Empire|Germany]]'s [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|invasion of Belgium]], August 1914. Germany was the stronger power, Belgium the weaker.

====Between the World Wars====
*[[Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi|Abd el-Krim]] led resistance in [[Morocco]] from 1920 to 1924 against [[French colonial empire|French]] and [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] colonial armies ten times as strong as the guerrilla force, led by General [[Philippe Pétain]].
*[[TIGR]], the first [[anti-fascist]] national-defensive organization in [[Europe]], fought against [[Benito Mussolini]]'s regime in [[Northeast Italy]].
*Anglo-Irish War ([[Irish War of Independence]]) fought between the Irish Republican Army and the [[Black and Tans]]/[[Auxiliaries]]. Though Lloyd George ([[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] at the time) attempted to persuade other nations that it was not a war by refusing to use the army and using the Black and Tans instead, the conflict was conducted as an asymmetric guerrilla war and was registered as a war with the League of Nations by the Irish Free State.

====World War II====
*[[Philippine resistance against Japan]]{{snd}}During the [[Japanese occupation of the Philippines|Japanese occupation]] in World War II, there was an extensive Philippine resistance movement, which opposed the Japanese with an active underground and guerrilla activity that increased over the years.
[[File:Molotov koktail.webp|thumb|A Finnish soldier demonstrating a [[molotov cocktail]] ]]
*[[Winter War]]{{snd}}[[Finland]] was invaded by the much larger [[mechanized military unit]]s of the [[Soviet Union]]. Although the Soviets captured 8% of Finland, they suffered enormous casualties versus much lower losses for the Finns. Soviet vehicles were confined to narrow forest roads by terrain and snow, while the Finns used [[Ski warfare|ski tactics]] around them unseen through the trees. They cut the advancing Soviet column into what they called [[Pocket (military)#Motti|motti]] (a cubic metre of firewood) and then destroyed the cut-off sections one by one. Many Soviets were shot, had their throats cut from behind, or froze to death due to inadequate clothing and lack of camouflage and shelter. The Finns also devised a petrol bomb they called the [[Molotov cocktail]] to destroy Soviet tanks.
*[[Soviet partisans]]{{snd}}resistance movement which fought in the [[Operation Barbarossa|German occupied parts of the Soviet Union]].
*[[Warsaw Uprising]]{{snd}}[[Poland]] (Home Army, [[Armia Krajowa]]) rose up against the [[German occupation of Poland|German occupation]].
*[[German occupation of Yugoslavia|Germany's occupation of Yugoslavia]], 1941–45 (Germany vs. [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito's]] [[Yugoslav Partisans|Partisans]] and [[Draža Mihailović|Mihailović's]] [[Chetniks]]).

=====Britain=====
*[[British Commando]]s and European coastal raids. German countermeasures and the notorious [[Commando Order]].
*[[Long Range Desert Group]] and the [[Special Air Service]] in [[Africa]] and later in Europe.
*[[South-East Asian Theatre of World War II|South East Asian Theater]]: [[Orde Charles Wingate|Wingate]], [[Chindits]], [[Force 136]], [[V Force]]
*[[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE)
*[[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] against British security forces in the [[The Troubles|Northern Campaign]].

=====United States=====
*[[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS)
*[[China Burma India Theater of World War II|China Burma India Theater:]] [[Merrill's Marauders]] and [[OSS Detachment 101]].