definition of war Our principal

Since “information operations” do not involve shooting and violence, they must fall outside the American definition of war Our principal adversaries hold very different views of war and therefore of influence operations. The Leninist view of warfare is a continuum from agitation and propaganda to the use of nuclear weapons. Autocrats consider lethal arms merely one means (of many) to achieve their political ends. In his 1962 work, Military Strategy, Marshal Vasiliy Sokolovskiy noted this continuum: “In a war period, the political struggle is transferred from nonmilitary to military form ufabet