An influential Pentagon advisory panel is set to tackle the "gray zone" -- potentially laying the groundwork to formally codify an entirely new conflict paradigm for U.S. military planners alongside nuclear, conventional, and counter-terrorism operations -- in a new study that seeks to identify, among other things, new planning techniques and technologies the Defense Department might develop. On Nov. 3, 2015, Pentagon acquisition executive Frank Kendall commissioned the Defense Science Board to conduct a 2016 summer study on "Capabilities for...
