Asymmetric warfare is a way for small numbers of people with little more equipment than what they can carry to fight a professional, modern armed force that's o

Asymmetric warfare is a way for small numbers of people with little more equipment than what they can carry to fight a professional, modern armed force that's occupying their nation or is very close to their borders; a significant amount of their time is spent scrounging for food and working out where to sleep. Any nation planning to fight a war asymmetrically is not planning to project power beyond its borders, and is effectively hoping that if they're enough of a nuisance (and they don't anger their own population too much doing it) the other side will get tired and go home. It is not an excellent or efficient strategy. It's bad. It relies on cells operating independently, which is massively inefficient, and it relies on those cells being armed with whatever they can scrounge; a professionally trained and equipped armed force is far more efficient and far more effective.