This must-read article discussed new shapes of warfare and international competition that avoid kinetic “war” as Americans usually conceive it. The author reviewed Russia’s “hybrid warfare strategy,” China’s “salami slicing,” and the “iTerrorism” strategy by ISIS. He described “cyber,” narratives, information operations, “unconventional war, guerilla war, irregular war, hybrid war, non-linear war, next-generation war, ambiguous war, asymmetric war, limited war, shadow war, indirect war, small war, the gray zone, low-intensity conflict, and even ‘Military Operations Other Than War’ (MOOTW).
Headline: War in Peace
Subhead: Cyberspace has brought about an era of persistent confrontation.