War's Changed Landscape

In late 2021, the new means of warfare were confidently being described by political and military leaders alike using phrases such as 'grey zone', 'sub-liminal' and 'below the threshold of outright conflict', a mix of hybrid strategies that would no longer involve the messy, noisy use of sticks and stones and bombs and gore. Future warfare was to be political warfare. Cyber and influence tools were the future and many academics agreed. In difficult retrospect, this was actually a narrative based