They have taken the nuclear option where conventional warfare would have sufficed.

Conventional warfare (and the reporting of war) requires target areas, fronts, advances and victories.

The war started as an insurgency and progressed to a large-scale conflict with the mixture of guerrilla and conventional warfare.

A people's war that showed how a superior force can be worn down by lesser military strength contrary to the classic rules of conventional warfare.

Besides training for their conventional warfare role, different infantry battalions specialise in unique roles.