Little Men in Black: The Frogman Threat in Maritime Hybrid Warfare

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Little Men in Black: The Frogman Threat in Maritime Hybrid Warfare
May 7, 2018 Ben Ho Wan Beng   1 Comment

By Ben Ho Wan Beng


Maritime hybrid warfare is upon us, so proclaimed James Stavridis, a retired United States Navy admiral. “(I)t will sail out to sea and prove a formidable challenge,” he contended in a December 2016 Proceedings article. According to security analyst Frank Hoffman, a hybrid opponent is one that “simultaneously and adaptively employs a fused mix of conventional weapons, irregular tactics, terrorism, and criminal behavior in the battlespace to obtain desired political objectives.” Indeed, Beijing’s use of its maritime militia, or “little blue men”, in the South China Sea (SCS) and similar measures by Teheran in the Persian Gulf are worrisome signs of hybrid warfare taking on a nautical slant.

http://cimsec.org/little-black-men-frogman-threat-maritime-hybrid-warfare/36373