Russia’s Gray-Zone War Is Spreading

As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either.

Writing about this phenomenon in July two years ago, I borrowed a definition from Clementine G. Starling, the deputy director of the Forward Defense program and a resident fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative (a definition I have since used on a number of occasions):

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As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either.

Writing about this phenomenon in July two years ago, I borrowed a definition from Clementine G. Starling, the deputy director of the Forward Defense program and a resident fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative (a definition I have since used on a number of occasions):