Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia’s ‘new way of war’?
@article{Galeotti2016HybridAA, title={Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia’s ‘new way of war’?}, author={Mark Galeotti}, journal={Small Wars \& Insurgencies}, year={2016}, volume={27}, pages={282 - 301} }
Abstract Russia’s recent operations in Ukraine, especially the integrated use of militias, gangsters, information operations, intelligence, and special forces, have created a concern in the West about a ‘new way of war’, sometimes described as ‘hybrid’. However, not only are many of the tactics used familiar from Western operations, they also have their roots in Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian practice. They are distinctive in terms of the degree to which they are willing to give primacy to ‘non…
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