“On this three-part collection, Dave Pitts brings conceptual readability to strategic competitors and battle within the grey zone. As Dave notes, grey struggle is prone to be the first mode of battle going ahead between America and its nice and regional energy adversaries, simply because it was in the course of the Soviet-American Chilly Warfare. Certainly, the brand new grey struggle has been underway for a while. Grey struggle encompasses a spread of operations from non-lethal and deadly covert motion to overt, oblique (proxy) struggle, and from cognitive warfare to cyber operations. It even extends into house. Via grey struggle, our adversaries search to undermine our nationwide will and capability to oppose them, alter the geopolitical panorama to their benefit and undermine our world affect, compromise our important nationwide safety methods, and steal our knowledge and know-how. Intelligence shall be our first line of protection, however it’s not sufficient. We should act. So far, America has been largely reactive and on the defensive within the grey struggle. That should change.”