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Operating on the margins : SOF in the gray zone / editor, Dr. Howard G. Coombs with Dr. Christopher Marsh.: D2-619/1-2023E-PDF ; D2-619/1-2023E

"This volume examines "gray zone conflict," or the space between peace and war in which state and non-state actors engage in competition. Even with the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, this interpretive paradigm retains great utility and helps explain the current strategic environment and the holistic nature of contemporary conflict. The idea of the gray zone needs to be kept in the special operations forces planners' conceptual toolkit since it helps clarify and articulate the contemporary global operating environment, particularly in Russia's near abroad and in the South China Sea and China's relations with Taiwan. This conflict model – the gray zone – is a valuable cognitive tool that facilitates a holistic comprehension of the unseen competitive struggle in which the West is currently engaged against various adversaries."

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, issuing body.
TitleOperating on the margins : SOF in the gray zone / editor, Dr. Howard G. Coombs with Dr. Christopher Marsh.
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • "Special operations forces and great power competition"--Cover and added title page.
  • "Produced for CANSOFCOM Education & Research Centre by 17 Wing Winnipeg Publishing Office"--Title page verso.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Preface -- Campaigning in the gray zone / Dr. Christopher Marsh and Dr. Thomas Searle -- Great power competition and the gray zone / Dr. Diane M. Zorri -- Re-framing NATO perspectives of 21st century conflict and special operations implications / Dr. Howard G. Coombs -- Canadian special operations forces theory of gray zone conflict / Ms. Tanya Allem, Major Jodi-Jane Longley, Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald A. McMichael, and Lieutenant-Colonel Warren B. Miron -- Special operations forces collective training for the gray zone / Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Todd S. Scharlach -- Designing a SOF campaign for strategic competition / Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Day -- Something borrowed : cyberspace concepts and gray zone conflict / Dr. Michael A. Hennessy -- The directed telescope : special operations forces in the gray zone / Major (retired) Phillippe J.F. Leclerc -- On the margins of empire / Dr. Howard G. Coombs -- Contributors -- Glossary of abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, [2023]
  • ©2023
Author / Contributor
  • Coombs, Howard, editor.
  • Marsh, Christopher, 1969- editor.
Description1 online resource (iii, 117 pages) : illustrations
ISBN9780660476421 9780660476438
Catalogue number
  • D2-619/1-2023E-PDF
  • D2-619/1-2023E
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