Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation...

Unconventional warfare (UW) is broadly defined as "military and quasi-military operations other than conventional warfare" and may use covert forces or...

Hybrid warfare is a theory of military strategy, first proposed by Frank Hoffman, which employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular...

strikes. Decapitation strikes have been employed in as a strategy in conventional warfare. The term has been used to describe the assassination of a government's...

conflicts conflict escalation can be rational for one side. In most conventional warfare, the belligerents deploy forces of a similar type, and the outcome...

the conventional units of British General Wellington, during the Peninsular War against Napoleon. Modern insurgencies and other types of warfare may include...

tactics). Conventional warfare doctrine identifies a spectrum with attrition warfare and maneuver warfare on opposite ends. In attrition warfare, the enemy...

medical, pharmaceutical or protective). Chemical warfare is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive...

weapons are weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can produce destruction in a much shorter time and can have...

guerrilla warfare stretches back to ancient history. While guerrilla tactics can be viewed as a natural continuation of prehistoric warfare, the Chinese...