The Hidden Benefits of Great-Power Conflict with China and Russia

The Hidden Benefits of Great-Power Conflict with China and Russia

The western discourse on the negative or threatening aspects of the ongoing Beijing and Moscow gray-zone operations is based on a faulty understanding of statecraft or grand strategy.

Lt. Col. Jyri Raitasalo is military professor of war studies at the Finnish National Defence University. The views expressed here are his own.

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