Editing Asymmetric warfare (section)

==Semi-symmetric warfare==
A new understanding of warfare has emerged amidst the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref name="Twitter.com">{{cite news|url=https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1499830924770430982|title=Phillips P. O'Brien describes Semi-Symmetric Warfare|date=2 Mar 2022|access-date=2022-03-05}}</ref> Although this type of warfare does not oppose an insurgency to a counter-insurgency force, it does involve two actors with substantially asymmetrical means of waging war. Notably, as technology has improved war-fighting capabilities, it has also made them more complex, thus requiring greater expertise, training, flexibility and decentralization. The nominally weaker military can exploit those complexities and seek to eliminate the asymmetry. This has been observed in Ukraine, as defending forces used a rich arsenal of anti-tank and anti-air missiles to negate the invading forces' apparent mechanized and aerial superiority, thus denying their ability to conduct combined arms operations. The success of this strategy will be compounded by access to real-time intelligence and the adversary's inability to utilize its forces to the maximum of their potential due to factors such as the inability to plan, brief and execute complex, full-spectrum operations.<ref name="Rusi.org">{{cite news|url=https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-defence-systems/russian-air-force-actually-incapable-complex-air-operations|title=Is the Russian Air Force Actually Incapable of Complex Air Operations?|date=4 Mar 2022|access-date=2022-03-05}}</ref>