Need Authorities for the Gray Zone Stop Whining. Instead, Help Yourself to Title 100. Hell,Take Some Title 200 While Youre at it

Abstract

As we strive to confront enemies operating in the Gray Zonethe fog-filled twilight zone between war and peace, where state and non-state actors employ threats, coercion, cooption, espionage, sabotage, political and economic pressure, propaganda, cyber tools, clandestine techniques, deniability, the threat of the use of force, and the use of force to advance their political and military agendas U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) forces are often frustrated by a lack of authorities to act. Short of war and beyond the parameters set by the 2001Congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) we may judge our Title 10 authorities inadequate to the task, or at best a remarkably poor fit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 07, 2016
Accession Number
AD1042538

Entities

People

  • James Q. Roberts

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Criminals
  • Department Of Defense
  • Emerging Technology
  • Governments
  • Gray Zone
  • Green Berets
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Terrorism
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Criminal Law
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace