He has served as an adviser to both the U.S. Gray served for 5 years in the Reagan administration on the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. He worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and at Hudson Institute (Croton-on-Hudson, NY) before founding a defense-oriented think tank in the Washington area, the National Institute for Public Policy. GRAY is Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, England. Gray poses the question, Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies? He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."ĬOLIN S. The monograph offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." It concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes.ĭr. Gray suggests, is the traditional American way of war.
Gray considers irregular warfare in the light of the general theory of strategy and finds that that theory is fully adequate to explain the phenomenon. These irregular enemies necessarily wage war in modes that are largely unconventional. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, please subscribe on our homepage at -ii-Īt present and probably for some years to come, America's enemies are of an irregular character. Each newsletter also provides a strategic commentary by one of our research analysts.
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