Deep Cyber, Sabotage And Lone Wolves

Sovereign states’ involvement in cross-border killings of critics and defectors has become more commonplace and visible in the past several years. These challenges to security fall below the line demarking anything that could be considered an act of war and that would trigger a military response. Such submilitary actions disrupt an adversary’s infrastructure, spread fear across the targeted population and establish deep threats that may be activated during some future war. We have aggregated examples of these weapons into three categories: Deep Cyber, Sabotage and Lone Wolves. These kinds of weapons become more and more effective as countries turn away from supporting traditional transnational legal organizations intended to hold parties accountable, leaving such attacks mostly outside global legal jurisdictions. These weapons are extensions of what we have called World War III, the Battle Over Permeable Borders.