“In this three-part series, Dave Pitts brings conceptual clarity to strategic competition and conflict in the gray zone. As Dave notes, gray war is likely to be the primary mode of conflict going forward between America and its great and regional power adversaries, just as it was during the Soviet-American Cold War. Indeed, the new gray war has been underway for some time. Gray war encompasses a range of operations from non-lethal and lethal covert action to overt, indirect (proxy) war, and from cognitive warfare to cyber operations. It even extends into space. Through gray war, our adversaries seek to undermine our national will and capacity to oppose them, alter the geopolitical landscape to their advantage and undermine our global influence, compromise our critical national security systems, and steal our data and technology. Intelligence will be our first line of defense, but it is not enough. We must act. To date, America has been mostly reactive and on the defensive in the gray war. That must change.”
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