Commentary | Joshua Arnold
Freedom in an Age of Foreign Threats
Rather than directly confronting the West's more powerful militaries, Iran, Russia, and China have engaged in asymmetric warfare. They conduct sabotage, cyberespionage, small-scale drone incursions, and civilian terror attacks. The war is not everything, but everything is now fair game in the war. Although bounded by oceans to the east and west, the U.S. has not escaped the threat entirely. China targets American infrastructure, data, and individual critics of its regime. Iran has placed bounties on American politicians and their families. Terrorists still attack civilian targets.
