Let’s say you’re the leader of a rising power determined to secure international economic and political dominance. But first, you have to subjugate an adversary that possesses a very powerful military. You could fight that adversary in a direct military conflict, perhaps winning, but only at a high cost. Or you could pick apart your adversary’s social fabric and corrode his national confidence, depleting both his will to resist you and regard his own interests as worth defending.  That latter strategy might take more time but also offers the possibility of victory at a very low cost. And it is that latter strategy that underpins the new way of war of the 21st century, which Russia, Iran, and particularly China are now waging against America.  (Dean MacAdamn for the Washington Examiner) China stands apart in the scale, diversity, and ambition of its efforts. That should be no surprise, for although the military theorist Sun Tzu died more than 2,500 years ago, his teachings heavily influence today’s Chinese Communist Party. Sun Tzu’s central thesis was that good strategists seek to damage an enemy at minimal cost. China and Russia fund disruptive American activist groups such as Code Pink that advance anti-American interests. They do so because such groups are perceived as being entirely homegrown and therefore marginally credible when they act in service of pro-Moscow and pro-Beijing foreign policy agendas. Top Republican strategist Karl Rove has...