7 May 2024

Cognitive and Information War and the “Gray Zone” =

Robbin Laird

An aspect of modern Western strategic thinking has been a focus on gray zone conflict.

This is an area I have always found confusing.

In a world which I would characterize as one of the rise of multi-polar authoritarian movements and states, their constant conflict efforts have indeed been in the gray zone punctuated with direct periods of violence against the West and its legacy of a “rules-based order.”

But as this is going on, it would be difficult not to factor in the domestic conflicts in both the UK and the United States which affects the AUKUS partners of Australia. So how well is Australia doing in the gray zone or information or cognitive warfare areas?

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