Charles T. Cleveland & Daniel Egel
The United States is now learning that terrorism – which defined America’s national security posture during the first two decades of the 21st century – was just the leading edge of a broader national security risk facing the nation.
Consolidating America’s approach to irregular warfare in a single high-level agency could help the U.S. address this larger and growing risk, and ultimately win.
The New National Security Challenge
By maintaining deterrence in nuclear and traditional war, the United States has forced adversaries to turn to a version of Kennan’s political warfare and its offensive component –irregular warfare – to achieve their objectives.
Through lawfare, economic means, foreign malign influence, material support to “fifth columns,” and sabotage, these adversaries are demonstrating the willingness, capacity, and capability to combat the United States and stay below the threshold of traditional war. Chinese merchant vessels dragging anchors in the Baltic Sea, Iranian drones in Ukraine, North Korean troops fighting in Europe, and expanding Chinese-Iranian-North Korean-Russian cooperation in the ongoing information war are indications beyond early warning that a global irregular war against America and her allies and friends is well underway.
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