Bull, I would call that a proxy war! which started by Saudi Arabia! and for the record Neo Iran isnt weak, after 8 years fighting with "Armed to the teeth" army of the Iraq and full support of East, West and Arabs, it should be completely obvious?!
We're also having advanced arsenal, Ready to react against any hostile actions by foreign invadors.
Please read the below article.
Typically at least one of the parties involved may be referred to as partisans. One theory says "partisan" comes from the Tuscan word "partigiano", meaning a member of a party of light or irregular troops engaged in harassing an enemy, especially a member of a guerrilla band engaged in fighting or sabotage against an occupying army. The other theory says the word comes from the Persian word Parti-san; in Persian, san means similar and Part is a name of an Aryan tribe living in the northeast of Iran who are said to have invented and developed the first partisan war tactics.
The first known wide usage of asymmetric war was by Parthians, who freed Persia from Seleucid rule (remaining from Alexander's invasion) and continued the same techniques against Romans and other invaders from the north of the empire.
Bockstette defines "Asymetric conflicts as conflicts between parties that show essential quantitative and/or qualitative dissimilarities in the battle space dimensions: an imbalance in forces, a different determination/ motivation, a different legitimization, a different application of methods and a difference in the quality or character of methods themselves. Asymmetrical conflicts are usually waged in a changing, asynchronous and unpredictable manner. The purpose is to hit the opponent at his center of gravity or several conflict-determining centers and decide the conflict in one’s own favor or to reach one’s own purposes. A new dimension of asymmetrical conflicts stems from the use of the mass media, especially the Word Wide Web, to spread information, the worldwide consequences of such conflicts and the increased threat of the use of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists."
Despite our modern aresenal, I dont think if U.S can compare with the father of unconventional warfare.
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