Life in the “Gray Zone”: observations for contemporary strategists

Wirtz, James J.

doi:10.1080/14751798.2017.1310702

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“…Another researcher who identifies the Chinese rationality as one close to the Russian is James J. Wirtz in his article "Life in the 'Gray Zone': observations for contemporary strategists". In the prolongation of this we will see a world govern by the logic of the Realism school of thought in International relations (Wirtz, 2017). If China and Russia is unopposed in their pursuit it is just a matter of fact.…”

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Hybrid warfare & theory

Gunneriusson

2021

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Hybrid threats use conventional and unconventional means to achieve their goals. This paper explores the cyber threat as one possible aspect of hybrid threats. It also discusses the background of the term hybrid warfare, how it emerged and travelled as the empirical situations evolved and needed new definitions. Russia aims at attaining this by applying a holistic mix of military, political and economic means to weaken the West and to strengthen its own role as a global player (with the “West” I for simplicity mean the states which constitute EU and NATO, but it is really more a cultural approach than an organizational). The Russian approach builds on a strategy of reflexive control which as such is an old method, but the outcome of the application of this approach results in hybrid warfare which as such is a new emerging concept of warfighting. This short article looks at one particular aspect of this Russian strategy, namely using Hybrid, or non-linear, Warfare against its Western direct neighbors in particular and the West in general. The cyber arena is very important in this practice. The attack of this weaponized situation is that the trust in the West. Primarily the EU (European Union) and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), is eroded for every day which these countries challenges the international system which the western democracies say that they present and defend. This is part of what can be described as an example of reflexive control, exercised by Russia.

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Hybrid warfare & theory

Gunneriusson

2021

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“…Este término fue recogido por vez primera en la Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) del US Department of Defense: "The future strategic landscape will increasingly feature challenges in the ambiguous gray area that is neither fully war nor fully peace" (2010, p.73). Aceptado y recogido por la comunidad científica, en sus primeras referencias convendría citar a Schadlow (2014) y Kapusta (2015), y posteriormente desarrollado por otros como Hoffman (2016), Wirtz (2017), Jordán (2018) o Englund (2019). Otros autores como Brands (2016) resaltan la complejidad del mismo, y a pesar de su reciente uso, es aplicable a otras regiones donde la confusión y la ambigüedad son intencionadas, para intentar camuflar maniobras hostiles (Jordán, 2018), situación que refleja Morris (2019) para el Mar de China.…”

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Fronteras ocultas en la zona gris europea

Bernabé-Crespo

2020

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La llamada “zona gris europea” consiste en los espacios de transición entre el conflicto abierto y la paz, en la actualidad presentes en la frontera este de la Unión Europea. Se trata de la esfera de expansión de la UE y OTAN, que coincide con el espacio exsoviético europeo, del cual Moscú sigue ejerciendo una notable influencia. En un escenario de creciente tensión entre estos dos bloques, dirimir procesos de integración o alianzas hacia uno u otro polariza a la sociedad, según sus características socioculturales y motivaciones políticas. Este trabajo realiza un análisis sociocultural, económico y político (resultados electorales, predominio lingüístico, minorías étnicas, economía regional) para establecer aproximadas fronteras ocultas en estos espacios, que pueden aflorar en situaciones de crisis, como fue el caso de Ucrania en 2014. En este trabajo se analiza el caso ucraniano para tratar de identificar otras divisorias en Belarús, Letonia y Moldavia, haciendo referencia a las distintas realidades de cada país.

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“…This strategy is predicated on the wager that the target will not seek to engage in conventional warfare, and thus may refrain from responding at all. 7 By using this method, the aggressor aims to initiate incremental change instead of presenting an outright challenge to the prevailing status quo. According to Michael J. Mazarr, grey zone conflict is an integrated, mostly non-kinetic method of pursuing political objectives in an incremental manner.…”

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Pandemics, Grey Zone Warfare, and (Inter)National Security

Kwiat¹

2020

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

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Life in the “Gray Zone”: observations for contemporary strategists

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Hybrid warfare & theory

Hybrid warfare & theory

Fronteras ocultas en la zona gris europea

Pandemics, Grey Zone Warfare, and (Inter)National Security

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