title: Introduction
abstract: Confronting these propositions is made difficult by the fact that they arise from a constellation of conceptual and technical misconceptions.The mischaracterisation of the grey zone, for instance, is both a product of conceptual inaccuracy in how adversaries approach escalation and of an 23 Mark Galeotti, 'I'm Sorry for Creating the "Gerasimov Doctrine"', Foreign Policy, 5 March 2018.
journal: Whitehall Papers