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Asymmetric warfare is defined as a conflict between powers whose relative military power, strategy, or tactics significantly differs. This usually involves a conflict between a standing, professional army and an insurgency or resistance movement.

Vancouvian military doctrine can be defined as professional asymmetric warfare.

What is professional asymmetric warfare in the context of Vancouvian engagements?

• Fighting designed to weaken all or most enemy advantages

• Fighting designed to mitigate any numerical advantages by forcing small, localized skirmishes

• Fighting designed to be short, abrupt, and decisive

• Fighting designed to wear the enemy down mentally and physically

• Fighting on chosen battlefields wherein the enemy force is disadvantaged

• The deployment of forces on multiple battlefields at once

• A higher quality of engaging force

• A more well armed and supplied engaging force

• More autonomous fighting units

• A loose interpretation, or abandonment, of the laws of war, if necessary

The ideal stages of a Vancouvian engagement:

1. An ideological and propagandist battle against the enemy force in order to isolate the force from any foreign and domestic assistance, aid, or sympathies

2. Requisition of aid, information, and troops from allied or friendly governments or factions

3. Destruction of the enemy air force and the maintaining of air superiority

4. Tactical strikes from sea and air forces on enemy strategic sites, installations, and leadership

5. Mass paratrooping of Vancouvian Special Forces cohorts over strategic choke-points, infrastructure targets, and enemy airfields and ports

6. Destruction or capture of strategic targets by VSF cohorts while avoiding prolonged conflicts with the enemy force

7. If required, deployment of Vancouvian National Army infantry and armor units to cities or other high-value assets to begin an occupation

8. Capture of any remaining enemy leadership and the demanding of surrender from the presiding governmental or military force

9. Deployment of humanitarian units to aid civilians in affected areas

10. Withdrawal of military and humanitarian units