New Dimension of Asymmetric Warfare: LTTE’s Guerrilla War in Sri Lanka
New Dimension of Asymmetric Warfare: LTTE’s Guerrilla War in Sri Lanka

Summary/Abstract: This paper intends to revisit the military theory of “Asymmetric Warfare” from a new dimension based on the guerrilla campaign led by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terrorist group that fought against the Sri Lanka’s legitimate government for thirty years. The task of this study contains a specific approach as it highlights “Composite Warfare”, a new dynamic emerged much later. The results emerging from this study unfolds how nation states in the 21st century concern about the irregular warfare as the subject matter of this paper, LTTE’s Guerrilla War against State of Sri Lanka, provides a classic example. LTTE utilizes a variety of tactics and strategies, some of which are well-known, tried, and tested, while others are new and original. The result is a new dimension of asymmetric warfare.

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