Operating in the Gray Zone: An Alternative Paradigm for U.S. Military Strategy

Abstract

Recent events in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and the South China Sea continue to take interesting, if not surprising, turns. As a result, many security experts are calling for revolutionary measures to address what they wrongly perceive to be a new form of warfare, called hybrid or gray zone wars, but which is, in fact, an application of classic coercive strategies. These strategies, enhanced by evolving technologies, have exploited a number of weaknesses in the Wests security structures. To remedy one of those weaknesses, namely, the lack of an appropriate planning framework, this monograph suggests a way to re-center the current U.S. campaign-planning paradigm to make it more relevant to contemporary uses of coercive strategies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1013691

Entities

People

  • Antulio Ii J. Echevarria

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Civil War
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Second World War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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