Three Dangerous Men

In Three Dangerous Men, defence expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition.While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals-Russia, China and Iran-have increasingly adopted irregular warfare: cyber-attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage and disinformation to undermine American power. Jones profiles three pioneers of irregular warfare in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran who adapted American techniques and made huge gains without waging traditional warfare: Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov; the deceased Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani; and vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia.Each has spent his career studying American power and devised techniques to avoid a conventional or nuclear war with the US.Gerasimov helped oversee a resurgence of Russian irregular warfare, which included attempts to undermine