Restricted Hybrid Warfare:

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" Restricted Hybrid Warfare: "
Jensen, Theodore

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1111809
Doc. No	:	TLpq2500014749
Main Entry	:	Jensen, Theodore
Title & Author	:	Restricted Hybrid Warfare:\ Jensen, Theodore
College	:	Harvard University
Date	:	2019
student score	:	2019
Degree	:	ALM
Page No	:	63
Abstract	:	The term Gray Zone conflict has generated a body of literature in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, China’s actions in the South China Sea and the Islamic States’ incursion into Iraq. Although it is evident that the term describes a legitimate phenomenon associated with an emerging multipolar international environment, a clear and useful definition of the “Gray Zone” remains elusive. This thesis argues that the term itself, i.e. Gray Zone conflict, confuses the debate over what the Gray Zone is or is not. Gray Zone is a common place holder in the English language to position a confusing or ill-understood concept. However, once this concept become clearly understood or is adequately described the term Gray Zone drops away in favor of a more apt term that now better captures the concept in question. This has not been the case when it comes to Gray Zone conflict, the term persists and acts as a boundary to responsive policies and a barrier to making substantive strategic discussions. The United States military and the academic community have done an excellent job describing Gray Zone conflict and positioning the term within geopolitics. As well as differentiating the term from the larger lexicon associated with warfare. However, this deep analysis and understanding suffers from an insistence on the continued use of the term “Gray Zone”. The term itself has become a catch phrase which often indicates only a surface understanding of the Gray Zone debate. This allows individuals to insert essentially any conflict of their choosing into the category of Gray Zone. A more useful term is Restricted Hybrid Warfare, the ambiguous and aggressive application of combined national power to revise geopolitical realities or loosen international restrictions in favor of a specific nation state or non-state actor. This term recognizes the hybrid nature of the Gray Zone phenomenon but moves it out of the murky no-mans-land that keeps the term from being useful to strategists and policy makers as well as effectively educating the American public. Like forms following functions, policies should follow strategies. Understanding these modern conflicts as Restricted Hybrid Warfare enables decision makers to clearly articulate their desired end states and thus set the conditions for the development and implementation of effective policies to see their strategy come to fruition. If the definition of the “Gray Zone” continually shifts but remains a trendy catch phrase within the United States’ national security vernacular there can be no coherent decision as to what strategy to undertake, let alone the sets of policies needed to support that strategy.
Subject	:	International law
	:	Military studies