Gray Zone Research

How Successful are Color Revolutions?

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Mike Shelby
Oct 03, 2025
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I spent part of this week doing a deep dive into Color Revolutions and framing out areas of research for a planned book on the topic (on how to counter them, not how to execute them). There are dozens of books detailing them, but not one on how to defeat them. I’m going to change that.

A Color Revolution is a form of irregular warfare that uses predomina…

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