- unconventional warfare
- Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or
insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by
operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area.
Also called UW. (JP 3-05.1)
Source:
DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
March 2017 - page 243
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