Russia, China beating US in ‘gray-zone’ warfare
Blackwater founder argues that America needs unconventional hybrid strategies to obviate big wars, and addresses the morality of the mercenary
by Uwe Parpart and Andrew Salmon December 30, 2021
Few are more familiar with the private military contractor, or PMC, sector than Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
Despite his strong advocacy of private, rather than national militaries, and his passionate criticism of US defeats in recent campaigns – detailed in Part 1 of this interview – Prince considers himself a US patriot.
Given this, he is concerned about America’s eroding capabilities in unconventional conflict – capabilities that could, feasibly, contain combat before it spirals up to the state-versus-state level.
While the CIA effectively managed proxy wars in the 1970s and1980s using non-state assets, Prince reckons America’s competitors are now more effective players on the global gray-zone chessboard than is the US.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/12/russia-china-beating-us-in-gray-zone-warfare/
