Asymmetric Warfare: Unconventional Tactic of The Insurgent in Deep South of Thailand

Abstract

The 20^th year of insurgency in the Deep South, it is the challenges to Thai society in every sector that need to be turned to understand the operations of the insurgent in Deep South to lead to participation in solving problem. Even though the number of violent events tend to decrease the violence operations have occurred regularly. Insurgencies throughout 20 years are the operational of fighting in the form of Unconventional / Non-conventional Warfare or Guerrilla Warfare. Unconventional / Non-conventional Warfare is the form of Asymmetric warfare that occurs between State and Non-state Actors which means state and insurgent. Currently there is only one group is BRN (Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani) still fight in every form whether military work uses violence, political incitement, cultivation, and raising various issues to magnify an outcome to both domestic and international media, including negotiation with Thai government with the goal of independence or separation of territory to establish the new state.