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  Figure 2-6. Shifts between strategies and phases.
  Section V—TACTICS
  Insurgencies employ both violent and nonviolent tactics to achieve their objectives. Nonviolent tactics attempt
  to achieve political goals without the use of force. Insurgent violent tactics are often accompanied by a variety
  of nonviolent tactics. Used together, these tactics, along with supporting propaganda, can assist in recruiting
  and gathering popular support. Historically insurgencies have fielded dedicated personnel to foment nonviolent
  action such as strikes and protests to supplement violent action. Insurgents are by nature an asymmetric threat.
  Asymmetric Warfare is a conflict in which a weaker opponent uses unorthodox or surprise tactics to attack
  weak points of a stronger opponent, especially if the tactics include terrorism, guerrilla warfare, criminal
  activity, subversion, or propaganda. Violent tactics by insurgents can include terrorism, guerrilla warfare,
  sabotage, or conventional operations. Insurgents often use terrorism and guerrilla tactics to achieve their goals,
  because they do not have the capability to contest the government or counterinsurgency forces in conventional
  operations.
  VIOLENT TACTICS
  2-97. Violent insurgent tactics are normally characterized by elusiveness, surprise, and brief, violent
  action. These tactics are often divided between terrorism and guerrilla warfare early in the insurgency.
  In Phase III of the insurgency, it is common to see more conventional operations. There are three general
  tactics available to insurgents that use violence—terrorism, guerrilla tactics, conventional tactics
  and criminal activity. The challenge is that at any given time the insurgent could use any of them. For
  clarity, the term ‘guerrilla’ applies to any insurgent forces performing any of these four types of violence.