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Known Unknowns: Unconventional "Strategic Shocks" - Nathan Freier
Excerpt:Politics, Economics, Social Action, and Political Violence as Hybrid War. The United States might also consider the prospect that hostile state and/or nonstate actors might individually or in concert combine hybrid methods effectively to resist U.S. influence in a nonmilitary manner. This is clearly an emerging trend. Imagine, for example, a China-Russia axis that collectively employs substantial political power within international institutions and markets to hold key American interests at risk. At the international level, actors like this might employ extant and emerging political/economic arrangements as instruments for purposeful resistance and war. Posted under Home Front Politix in the hope that someone in politics may stumble onto it. Posted by: Besoeker 2009-02-22 |
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