The Danger of the Gray Zone: Flawed Responses to Emerging Unconventional Threats
The United States has failed to appropriately respond to the gray zone so far, so what should the new administration strive for?
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Enabling Unconventional Warfare to Address Grey Zone Conflicts
This paper explores how the similarities between covert action and UW activities have led to a negative perception of UW and lengthy delays in its use.
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The COiNventional Wisdom
Will we “learn” the same lessons we learned after Vietnam again? (…and, by the way, what were those lessons?)
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Social Media and Unconventional Warfare
Writing in the April issue of Special Warfare, LTC Brian Petit takes a look at the role of social media.
Social media — blogs, social-network sites, information aggregators, wikis, livecasting, video sharing — has decisively altered that most extreme of socio-politico acts: revolution. The 2011 Arab Spring revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East were engineered through citizen-centric computer and cellular-phone technologies that streamed web-enabled social exchanges. The Arab Spring has profound implications for the U.S. special-operations mission of unconventional warfare. This article posits that the study, practice and successful execution of future UW must deliberately account for and incorporate social media.
H/T Dave Maxwell