
“On this three-part sequence, Dave Pitts brings conceptual readability to strategic competitors and battle within the grey zone. As Dave notes, grey conflict is more likely to be the first mode of battle going ahead between America and its nice and regional energy adversaries, simply because it was throughout the Soviet-American Chilly Warfare. Certainly, the brand new grey conflict has been underway for a while. Grey conflict encompasses a spread of operations from non-lethal and deadly covert motion to overt, oblique (proxy) conflict, and from cognitive warfare to cyber operations. It even extends into area. By means of grey conflict, our adversaries search to undermine our nationwide will and capability to oppose them, alter the geopolitical panorama to their benefit and undermine our world affect, compromise our important nationwide safety programs, and steal our information and expertise. Intelligence shall be our first line of protection, however it isn’t sufficient. We should act. Up to now, America has been largely reactive and on the defensive within the grey conflict. That should change.”