unconventional threats http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/ en “To Oppress the Free”: The Iranian Basij and the Dark Side of Unconventional Warfare Doctrine http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/oppress-free-iranian-basij-and-dark-side-unconventional-warfare-doctrine <span>“To Oppress the Free”: The Iranian Basij and the Dark Side of Unconventional Warfare Doctrine</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Thu, 02/27/2020 - 12:42pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Iran, since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, has prioritized and dedicated significant resources to protecting the ruling regime from UW threats from within while (leveraging its empirically won UW principles) projecting highly capable UW forces abroad.</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/oppress-free-iranian-basij-and-dark-side-unconventional-warfare-doctrine" rel="tag" title="“To Oppress the Free”: The Iranian Basij and the Dark Side of Unconventional Warfare Doctrine" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about “To Oppress the Free”: The Iranian Basij and the Dark Side of Unconventional Warfare Doctrine</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/oppress-free-iranian-basij-and-dark-side-unconventional-warfare-doctrine#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">2 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/index.php/taxonomy/term/858/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1632480545" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:42:33 +0000 SWJED 135126 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Deterring “Competition Short of War”: Are Gray Zones the Ardennes of our Modern Maginot Line of Traditional Deterrence? http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/deterring-competition-short-war-are-gray-zones-ardennes-our-modern-maginot-line <article data-history-node-id="120615" role="article" class="article teaser clearfix"> <h2> <a href="/jrnl/art/deterring-competition-short-war-are-gray-zones-ardennes-our-modern-maginot-line" rel="bookmark"><span>Deterring “Competition Short of War”: Are Gray Zones the Ardennes of our Modern Maginot Line of Traditional Deterrence?</span> </a> </h2> <footer> <article> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="masquerade.callbacks:renderCacheLink" arguments="0=4" token="2JcDkyvoNdz7AbcUTZXDTgfSvABuLH-TUc0jYOzfCs0"></drupal-render-placeholder></article> <div class="author"> <span>Tue, 05/14/2019 - 12:51am</span> </div> </footer> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Unconventional Deterrence is not Unconventional Warfare any more than Nuclear Deterrence is Nuclear Warfare. The goal of UD is not to destabilize the societies of our enemies, rather the goal of UD is to deter our enemies from destabilizing our own society, and those of our Allies and Partners. While most of my contemporaries overly fixate on the strengths of our opponents and how they match up with inherent weaknesses of our own; I am far more interested in where their inherent weaknesses play to our strengths.</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/deterring-competition-short-war-are-gray-zones-ardennes-our-modern-maginot-line" rel="tag" title="Deterring “Competition Short of War”: Are Gray Zones the Ardennes of our Modern Maginot Line of Traditional Deterrence?" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Deterring “Competition Short of War”: Are Gray Zones the Ardennes of our Modern Maginot Line of Traditional Deterrence?</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> <h2>About the Author(s)</h2> <div class="views-element-container form-group"></div> </div> </article> Tue, 14 May 2019 04:51:42 +0000 SWJED 120615 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com The Danger of the Gray Zone: Flawed Responses to Emerging Unconventional Threats http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/the-danger-of-the-gray-zone-flawed-responses-to-emerging-unconventional-threats <article data-history-node-id="56498" role="article" class="article teaser clearfix"> <h2> <a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/the-danger-of-the-gray-zone-flawed-responses-to-emerging-unconventional-threats" rel="bookmark"><span>The Danger of the Gray Zone: Flawed Responses to Emerging Unconventional Threats</span> </a> </h2> <footer> <article> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="masquerade.callbacks:renderCacheLink" arguments="0=4" token="2JcDkyvoNdz7AbcUTZXDTgfSvABuLH-TUc0jYOzfCs0"></drupal-render-placeholder></article> <div class="author"> <span>Tue, 12/06/2016 - 10:54am</span> </div> </footer> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> The United States has failed to appropriately respond to the gray zone so far, so what should the new administration strive for?</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/the-danger-of-the-gray-zone-flawed-responses-to-emerging-unconventional-threats" rel="tag" title="The Danger of the Gray Zone: Flawed Responses to Emerging Unconventional Threats" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Danger of the Gray Zone: Flawed Responses to Emerging Unconventional Threats</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> <h2>About the Author(s)</h2> <div class="views-element-container form-group"></div> </div> </article> Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:54:48 +0000 SWJED 56498 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com