The Menace of Russian Hybrid Warfare and How to Thwart It
Luke Coffey August 05, 2019
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 with the use of so-called “little green men†and Moscow’s subsequent meddling in elections across the transatlantic community, “hybrid warfare†has become the term du jour in Western foreign policy circles.
Perhaps the best definition of hybrid warfare is offered by the new European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, which describes it as “coordinated and synchronized action that deliberately targets democratic states’ and institutions’ systemic vulnerabilities, through a wide range of means (political, economic, military, civil, and information),†and “activities [that] exploit the thresholds of detection and attribution, as well as the border between war and peace.â€
The aim, the Helsinki-based center says, is to “influence different forms of decision-making at the local (regional), state, or institutional level to favor and/or gain the agent’s strategic goals while undermining and/or hurting the target.â€
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