- 348 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. Turning away from the military as an omnibus tool of aggression, hostile governments are instead frequently using tools—including subversive economics, coercion of foreign companies, gradual border violations, cyberattacks, disinformation, and arbitrary detention of foreign citizens—that are often difficult for targeted countries to immediately identify, let alone tackle. Nonmilitary aggression is easy, inexpensive, and alarmingly effective. Businesses — American and foreign — have already suffered significant financial losses because of gray-zone attacks.In The Defender's Dilemma, international security expert Elisabeth Braw offers the first sustained analysis of how these tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies, which are open societies by definition and intimately connected to the rest of the world through globalization. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents str
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- I. Defining and Identifying Gray-Zone Aggression
- II. 2014: A Decisive Year
- III. Gray-Zone Aggression, a National Security Threat
- IV. Is Sponsorship an Act of Aggression? Use of Licit Means in the Gray Zone
- V. Subversive Economics: When Business as Usual Enters the Gray Zone
- VI. Coercion, Bullying, and Subversion of Civil Society
- VII. Gradual Border Alterations and Surreptitious Fishing: Use of Illicit Means
- VIII. Producing Fear in the Enemy’s Mind: Adapting Cold War Deterrence for Gray-Zone Aggression
- IX. Cold War Swedish and Finnish Total Defense as Deterrence
- X. Building a Wall of Denial Against Gray-Zone Aggression
- XI. Deterrence by Punishment
- Concluding Reflections
- Notes
- About the Author