What I meant was asymmetric use of violence where a much weaker force uses their ability to show up unexpectedly and cause damage to cause fear and terror far out of proportion with the true damage that they are capable of inflicting. Those are the defined underdogs.
This is as opposed to war where a force capable of large sustained violence actually engages in sustained violence (though often by following certain rules of conduct - see the Geneva conventions) to force an enemy to capitulate. This use of force may indeed cause terror but does not indicate an inherent weakness in the force using the tactic.
What I meant was asymmetric use of violence where a much weaker force uses their ability to show up unexpectedly and cause damage to cause fear and terror far out of proportion with the true damage that they are capable of inflicting. Those are the defined underdogs.
This is as opposed to war where a force capable of large sustained violence actually engages in sustained violence (though often by following certain rules of conduct - see the Geneva conventions) to force an enemy to capitulate. This use of force may indeed cause terror but does not indicate an inherent weakness in the force using the tactic.