Pentagon advisers, eyeing China and Russia, cite trade in push for aggressive 'gray zone' strategy

An influential Pentagon advisory board has ended a two-year study of the future of the U.S. military with a blueprint for how to more aggressively compete in non-military “gray zones,” naming trade and cybersecurity as two avenues. “The Department, along with its stakeholders at the whole-of-government level, needs to be more aggressive in the Gray Zone and treat every action as a campaign to deter competitors from behavior counter to U.S. objectives,” the Defense Science Board writes in a summary...