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The term first appears in 1974 in Mack, A. The Concept of Power and Its Uses in Explaining Asymmetric Conflict. London: Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research.
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Based on Mack, A. (1983) ‘Why Big Powers Lose Small Wars: The Politics of Asymmetric Conflict’ in K. Knorr (ed.) Power, Strategy, and Security: A World Politics Reader. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 126–151. This implies a qualitative and quantitative superiority by empirical conventional measures of military capabilities, only.
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These battles witnessed European armies handily and brutally defeating their non-European adversaries because the latter chose, imprudently, to fight the former symmetrically. See Churchill, W. S. (1997) The River War. London: Prion, pp. 191–225 and Bolger, D. P. (1991) ‘The Ghosts of Omdurman’, Parameters, Autumn, p. 34, for an analysis of the Battle of Omdurman.
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Souleimanov, E.A., Aliyev, H. (2017). Foreword. In: How Socio-Cultural Codes Shaped Violent Mobilization and Pro-Insurgent Support in the Chechen Wars . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52917-2_1
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