Introduction
Journal: Whitehall Papers
Year: 2021

Confronting these propositions is made difficult by the fact that they arise from a constellation of conceptual and technical misconceptions.The mischaracterisation of the grey zone, for instance, is both a product of conceptual inaccuracy in how adversaries approach escalation and of an 23 Mark Galeotti, 'I'm Sorry for Creating the "Gerasimov Doctrine"', Foreign Policy, 5 March 2018.