DECEITFUL INTERNATIONALISM
A seemingly innocuous bridge constructed to transport yucca through the jungles of the Global South today may be employed to support the weight of an armored convoy of combatants tomorrow.
State actors such as the People's Republic of China (PRC) are employing irregular warfare strategies to subversively erect road, bridge, and rail networks across the globe under the auspices of the facilitation of innocent commercial endeavors.
These networks—such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—represent proactive measures intended to support the logistical networks of adversarial militaries in anticipation of kinetic conflict.
"...we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections...on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day." -John F. Kennedy
