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unconventional warfare

The Danger of the Gray Zone: Flawed Responses to Emerging Unconventional Threats SWJED Tue, 12/06/2016 - 10:54am

The United States has failed to appropriately respond to the gray zone so far, so what should the new administration strive for?

Social Media and Unconventional Warfare

Sat, 04/07/2012 - 11:27am

Writing in the April issue of Special Warfare, LTC Brian Petit takes a look at the role of social media.

Social media — blogs, social-network sites, information aggregators, wikis, livecasting, video sharing — has decisively altered that most extreme of socio-politico acts: revolution. The 2011 Arab Spring revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East were engineered through citizen-centric computer and cellular-phone technologies that streamed web-enabled social exchanges. The Arab Spring has profound implications for the U.S. special-operations mission of unconventional warfare. This article posits that the study, practice and successful execution of future UW must deliberately account for and incorporate social media.

H/T Dave Maxwell