Perils of the Gray Zone: Paradigms Lost, Paradoxes Regained
Journal: Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School)
Year: 2018

In the long years since the 9/11 attacks on America, the wide-ranging "war on terror" has morphed into terror's war on the world.Terrorist incidents have increased seven-fold, with the casualties caused by such attacks more than quintupling. 1Just as troubling, since the start of the current decade the overall number of wars under way has increased nearly a third-from 31 to 41. 2 There is much overlap between the worst of these conflicts and the number of terrorist incidents, with Iraq, Afghanis