Digital Guerrilla Doctrine and the Resilience Index Asymmetric Warfare in Networked Environments: Doctrine, Case Studies, and a Seven-Domain Resilience Scoring Framework

Classic guerrilla logic—avoid strength, attack weakness, stretch time, erode will—has been transformed by digital networks, cheap precision systems, commercial sensing, and information operations into a new form of asymmetric warfare that is reshaping the relationship between conventional military power and political outcome. This paper defines the six doctrinal pillars of digital guerrilla warfare, analyzes three live case studies (Ukraine, the Houthis in the Red Sea, and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz), examines the implications for great power force design, and introduces the Digital Guerrilla Resilience Index (DGRI): a seven-domain, Zero Trust-inspired scoring framework for assessing how well a force or posture can fight, adapt, and project power under the assumption that it is persistently seen, targeted, and disrupted. The DGRI is applied to a concrete scenario—a U.S.-led naval task force in a Red Sea digital guerrilla environment—to demonstrate the scoring methodology and its operational implications.