Name the Country
This country uses the Belt and Road Initiative as its signature tool of economic coercion, creating infrastructure dependencies across developing nations.
What is China?
This type of political warfare takes the fight directly to the adversary by destabilizing their regime and raising their costs of doing business.
What is offensive political warfare?
This gray zone tool involves using social media, propaganda, and fabricated narratives to sow doubt and division in foreign countries.
What is Information Operations and Disinformation?
This is the element of gray zone commonality that refers to the observable fact that gray zone activities are more threatening than routine statecraft but stop short of direct military combat between principal parties.
What is Bounded Thresholds?
Who owns Milo the dog?
This country's coast guard and maritime militia have been used to enforce artificial island claims in the South China Sea, giving it effective control of the region in all scenarios short of war with the United States.
What is China?
This type of political warfare is conducted entirely in public view, with no attempt to hide the actor behind the operation.
What is overt political warfare?
This gray zone tool involves hacking, viruses, and other malicious acts to disrupt political processes, damage infrastructure, or steal information.
What is Cyber Operations?
his is the element of commonality that explains why gray zone actors sometimes obscure the connection between their tactic and its ultimate security goal, particularly in the economic and information realms.
What is (Veiled) Intentionality Toward a Security Objective?
What is the name of James' hometown?
Appleton, Wisconsin
This country routinely jams GPS signals into South Korea, making it arguably the most prolific space-based systems jammer in the world according to CSIS.
What is North Korea?
This type of political warfare uses sanctions, economic denial, and harsh public condemnation to directly pressure an adversary.
What is hard political warfare?
This gray zone tool uses licit or illicit instruments to affect the political composition or decisionmaking within a target state.
What is Political Coercion?
This element uses a wide range of tools (military, economic, political, cyber, etc.), often mixing state and non-state actors, allowing flexibility and making intentions harder to detect.
What is Multidimensional Toolkits?
Name one of the ships Professor Mobley commanded
USS Boone and/or USS Camden
This country's Internet Research Agency runs the most well-funded and prolific state-sponsored disinformation operation targeting Western democracies.
What is Russia?
This type of political warfare slowly erodes a regime's foundations over time without trying to trigger immediate dramatic change.
What is corrosive political warfare?
This gray zone tool uses financial leverage, energy dependence, and trade restrictions to cause harm or achieve goals against an adversary.
What is Economic Coercion?
This element is described by CSIS as particularly notable within the gray zone toolkit because it is used to shape narratives, legitimize actions, and create instability or division within target societies.
What is (Dis)Information Operations?
What is the title of Professor Mobley's book?
Progressives in Navy Blue
This country carried out a data deletion attack on dozens of Saudi government and private sector networks between 2016 and 2017 as a gray zone cyber operation.
What is Iran?
This type of political warfare is used when a state wants to impose costs on a rival without directly confronting them, by shaping the broader global environment instead.
What is indirect political warfare?
This gray zone tool uses non-state or paramilitary groups with direct ties to a state to control territory and exert influence without formally using military force.
What is Proxy Support?
This element of gray zone commonality refers to the deliberate blurring of boundaries between state and commercial actors, including state-owned enterprises used as covers, private companies leveraged to evade state authority, and targeting of private firms to undermine political processes.
What is Public and Private Sector Domains?
What award did James receive from the Daughter of the American Revolution in May 2018?
The Good Citizen Award