Quote Originally Posted by Bill Moore View Post
We don't sufficiently appreciate the adversary's use of subversion, distraction, and attrition as strategic lines of effort to weaken us over the long term.
Funny you should mention this. See also
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...829#post192829

Quote Originally Posted by Bill Moore View Post
Even if China's government doesn't support this, and I suspect they don't, they can still benefit from it by ignoring it. Just like Russia and China benefited strategically by the U.S. being distracted in the Middle East.
Why? For the sake of argument, how would that be any different than Beijing's offensive cyberwar efforts?

If you're saying officially unsanctioned, the US has elements of the Federal Government doing 'dumb####' that could qualify as 'left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing'.

Furthermore, Beijing is far better at the long game than Washington DC. It would be well within the PRC's playbook guidelines to let some of their gangsters float a new drug that - if the circumstances dictate it - could be used as an asset during a confrontation.