LOW INTENSITY CONFLICS
Journal Title: Impact Strategic - Year 2005, Vol 16, Issue 3
Abstract
Conventional military power is often irrelevant in low intensity conflicts; In LIC, the concentra- tion of military forces tends to be an exceptional occurrence. This is because small groups mainly carry out the operations or because they cannot be easily identified, especially in terrorism. In the case of insurgency war, the insurgents know that they are no suitable against the country’s military force as they will be easily outnumbered and outgunned. They will instead avoid decisive battle and use their military forces to gain “maximum political effect at minimum military cost”. Firepower is thus of secondary importance.
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Vladi SOFRONIEV
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