What are Asymmetric Strategies?

Résumé du livre

No prospective adversary of the United States can afford to take on the U.S. military in a head-to-head confrontation. Serious threats have not disappeared, however. They now will likely take the form of asymmetric challenges to U.S. forces. How can the United States best address its potential vulnerability to such threats as chemical and biological warfare, terrorism, and information warfare? In support of the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review, the authors examine such asymmetric strategies as airfield attack and a biological warfare attack on New York and conclude that the United States is "some distance" from having the ability to counter the range of asymmetric threats and will require "a significant intelligence shift away from tactical military issues and toward adversary strategies and their vulnerabilities" to avoid "fighting the last war."