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| Author | : Andrew S. Erickson |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2019-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 159114695X |
China’s maritime “gray zone” operations represent a new challenge for the U.S. Navy and the sea services of our allies, partners, and friends in maritime East Asia. There, Beijing is waging what some Chinese sources term a “war without gunsmoke.” Already winning in important areas, China could gain far more if left unchecked. One of China’s greatest advantages thus far has been foreign difficulty in understanding the situation, let alone determining an effective response. With contributions from some of the world’s leading subject matter experts, this volume aims to close that gap by explaining the forces and doctrines driving China’s paranaval expansion, operating in the “gray zone” between war and peace. The book covers China’s major maritime forces beyond core gray-hulled Navy units, with particular focus on China’s second and third sea forces: the “white-hulled” Coast Guard and “blue-hulled” Maritime Militia. Increasingly, these paranaval forces, and the “gray zone” in which they typically operate, are on the frontlines of China’s seaward expansion.
| Author | : Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. |
| Publisher | : Harvard Business Review Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2016-08-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1633691756 |
How to Resolve the Really Hard Problems Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the “gray areas”—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you’ve done the best analysis you can, and you still don’t know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right? In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems. Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. Asking yourself these five questions provides a simple yet profound way to broaden your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and develop a fresh perspective. What makes these questions so valuable is that they have truly stood the test of time—they’ve guided countless men and women, across many centuries and cultures, to resolve the hardest questions of work, responsibility, and life. You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues.
| Author | : Antulio J. Echevarria II |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
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| Author | : Antulio J. Echevarria II |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 2016-04-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781693080074 |
So-called gray zone wars are not new, but they have highlighted shortcomings in the way the West thinks about war and strategy. This monograph proposes an alternative to the U.S. military's current campaign-planning framework, one oriented on achieving positional advantages over rival powers and built around the use of a coercion-deterrence dynamic germane to almost all wars as well as to conflicts short of war.
| Author | : Antulio Joseph Echevarria |
| Publisher | : Advancing Strategic Thought |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 2016-04-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781584877257 |
So-called gray zone wars are not new, but they have highlighted shortcomings in the way the West thinks about war and strategy. This monograph proposes an alternative to the U.S. military's current campaign-planning framework, one oriented on achieving positional advantages over rival powers and built around the use of a coercion-deterrence dynamic germane to almost all wars as well as to conflicts short of war. AUDIENCE: This text may appeal to security analysts, military soldiers and leaders, policy practitioners, defense scholars, war planners and military strategists, and international relations teams that may be instrumental in achieving policy goals.Additionally, military historians, and students pursuing coursework in military science, international relations, and public administration may be interested in this work as a supplemental text. Related products: Charting a Course: Strategic Choices for a New Administration can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/search/apachesolr_search/Charting%20a%20Course Lessons Encountered: Learning from the Long War is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00619-7 The Pivot to Asia: Can It Serve as the Foundation for American Grand Strategy in the 21st Century? available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01207-5 Project 1704: A U.S. Army War College Analysis of Russian Strategy in Eastern Europe, an Appropriate U.S. Response, and the Implications for U.S. Landpower available here: http: // https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01206-7 Asia Eyes America can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-046-00240-1
| Author | : Allyson Apsey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2018-03-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781946444714 |
In this funny, genuine, and clever book, Allyson Apsey shares relatable stories and practical strategies for living a meaningful life regardless of the craziness happening around you. You'll discover that you really do have the power to choose the kind of life you live-every day.
| Author | : Michael J. Mazarr |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781329784611 |
"Discussions of an emerging practice of 'gray zone' conflict have become increasingly common throughout the U.S. Army and the wider national security community, but the concept remains ill-defined and poorly understood. This monograph aims to contribute to the emerging dialogue about competition and rivalry in the gray zone by defining the term, comparing and contrasting it with related theories, and offering tentative hypotheses about this increasingly important form of state competition. The idea of operating gradually and somewhat covertly to remain below key thresholds of response is hardly new. Many approaches being used today -- such as support for proxy forces and insurgent militias -- have been employed for millennia. The monograph argues that the emergence of this more coherent and intentional form of gray zone conflict is best understood as the confluence of three factors. Understood in this context, gray zone strategies can be defined as a form of conflict that pursues political objectives through integrated campaigns; employs mostly nonmilitary or nonkinetic tools; strives to remain under key escalatory or red line thresholds to avoid outright conventional conflict; and moves gradually toward its objectives rather than seeking conclusive results in a relatively limited period of time. Having examined the scope and character of gray zone conflict, the monograph offers seven hypotheses about this emerging form of rivalry. Finally, the monograph offers recommendations for the United States and its friends and allies to deal with this challenge"--Publisher's web site.
| Author | : Guillermo Trejo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2020-09-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108899900 |
One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of criminal wars and large-scale criminal violence. Why did Mexican drug cartels go to war as the country transitioned away from one-party rule? And why have criminal wars proliferated as democracy has consolidated and elections have become more competitive subnationally? In Votes, Drugs, and Violence, Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley develop a political theory of criminal violence in weak democracies that elucidates how democratic politics and the fragmentation of power fundamentally shape cartels' incentives for war and peace. Drawing on in-depth case studies and statistical analysis spanning more than two decades and multiple levels of government, Trejo and Ley show that electoral competition and partisan conflict were key drivers of the outbreak of Mexico's crime wars, the intensification of violence, and the expansion of war and violence to the spheres of local politics and civil society.
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| Total Pages | : 39 |
| Release | : 2004 |
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The 2002 National Security Strategy (NSS) rightly identified the proliferation, privatization, and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by terrorist groups and rogue states as the critical nontraditional threat of the 21st century. However, the NSS argues that in the 21st century, technology has advanced and become so readily available that we "must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries." This reconceptualization of preemption defines the core question-What military strategy is appropriate for using force "to act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed"? We argue preemption is ill-suited for disrupting the converged threat of terrorists and rogue states pursuing WMD. Instead, we propose that a forcible counterproliferation (FCP) strategy is most effective for fighting in the "gray zone." Using the 2002 NSS and the problems associated with justifying the preemptive use of force in Iraq as starting points, we examine three questions: 1) How has the threat environment changed since the end of the Cold War? 2) If there is a new threat environment, what is the appropriate military strategy for that threat? 3) How can the United States justify a new strategy to domestic critics and gain international support?
| Author | : U. S. Army War College |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-11-09 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781365522116 |
Sponsored by the Army Capabilities Integration Center and in collaboration with the Joint Staff's Deputy Directorate for Global Operations (Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment Branch), this report examines the emergence of gray zone competition and conflict as important pacers for U.S. defense strategy. The authors argue that gray zone challenges are unique defense-relevant issues sharing three common characteristics-hybridity, menace to defense and military convention, and profound and paralyzing risk-confusion. This report and its authors offer an important opening venture into a vexing strategic question for senior defense and military leadership on the subject of gray zone threats. Namely, how can the American defense enterprise adjust to an era of relentless revisionist and rejectionist opposition to U.S. power? On the one hand, purposeful U.S. competitors pursue meaningful revision of the U.S.-led status quo through campaign-quality combinations of influence, intimidation, coercion, and aggression.
