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 | THE SURKOV LEAKS: THE INNER WORKINGS OF RUSSIA’S HYBRID WAR IN UKRAINE By Alya Shandra and Robert Seely
THIS PAPER PROVIDES a guide to Russian subversive warfare by examining, in detail, three
tranches of leaked emails apparently belonging to Kremlin officials ─ including, primarily
and critically, Vladislav Surkov, the man known as President Vladimir Putin’s ‘Rasputin’
─ who have been closely involved with the Eastern Ukraine conflict, and in particular with the
political and economic management of two statelets established by the Kremlin in Donetsk and
Luhansk.1 In addition, it ...Read more > | 92 Pages 1.81 MB |
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 | CALIBRATING THE COMPASS: HYBRID THREATS AND THE EU’S STRATEGIC COMPASS By Hybrid CoE
The EU has embarked on a strategic reflection process which should result in a document called the
Strategic Compass. It aims to update elements of
the EU Global Strategy from 2016, while retaining
a more focused and operational tilt. The Compass
should clarify the EU’s assessment of the security environment, define the level of ambition in
security and defence matters, and offer concrete
tools and proposals to achieve that level of ambition.1 The Compass is set to be finalized during ...Read more > | 24 Pages 4.17 MB |
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 | HYBRID WARFARE AND ACTIVE MEASURES By Gabriel Lloyd
Since Vladmir Putin s inauguration as Russia s president following the tumultuous tenure of Boris Yelsin, Russia has implemented a coordinated policy of conventional espionage measures, cyber intrusions, and information operations targeting the United States. Validated on the multi-domain battlefields and computer networks of vulnerable Baltic neighbors, Russia s active campaigns of intelligence and influence operations have caught the United States off-guard. Four successive U.S. presidential ...Read more > | 5 Pages 6.56 MB |
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 | HYBRID WARFARE By Niklas Nilsson, Mikael Weissmann, Björn Palmertz, Per Thunholm and Henrik Häggström
The international security environment has in recent years evolved into a volatile
and increasingly grey zone of war and peace. Security challenges arising from hybrid
threats and hybrid warfare, henceforth HT&HW, are today high on security agendas
across the globe. However, despite the attention, and a growing body of studies on
specific issues, there is an imminent need for research bringing attention to how these
challenges can be addressed in order to develop a comprehensive approach ...Read more > | 287 Pages 2.96 MB |
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 | HYBRID WAR AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT By Jeffrey Bristol
The National Security Strategy (NSS) dictates America’s transition to “Great Power
Competition.” While the 2017 NSS fails to define the term and uses it only once, the tone of the
document is rife with its essential idea: The United States is no longer the hegemon and must
operate in a global milieu of rising nations whose interests only sometimes align with the United
States’ own. Within this context, the NSS dedicates itself to “preserv(ing) peace through
strength.”[1] In no ...Read more > | 9 Pages 387.23 KB |
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 | NATO S RESPONSE TO HYBRID THREATS By Guillaume Lasconjarias and Jeffrey A. Larsen
The NATO Defense College fulfils its mission against the backdrop of world events and rising challenges to North Arlantic security. As the Alliance s primary academic institution, the College has made it its business to look beyond the apparent, and to take nothing for granted. The curriculum evolves along with the international security situation as it develops (and sometimes erupts). Those participating in our courses and events are thus faced ...Read more > | 372 Pages 1.31 MB |
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 | THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIAN HYBRID WARFARE By Center for European Policy Analysis
In 2018, CEPA examined Russia’s approach
to nonlinear competition in its wellreceived report “Chaos as a Strategy: Putin’s
‘Promethean’ Gamble.”1
The report’s initial
assessment was that Kremlin leaders were
applying military and nonmilitary means
as one in the same, that they were strategic
in intention and opportunistic in their use
of chaos, and that they were succeeding
by effectively managing two of the most
essential variables in their strategy: time
and risk. ...Read more > | 62 Pages 4.62 MB |
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 | HYBRID WARS: THE 21ST -CENTURY’S NEW THREATS TO GLOBAL PEACE AND SECURITY By Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, Håkan Gunneriusson
The so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’ during the Arab Spring of 2011
challenged the political order in the Maghreb and the whole Middle East. While
some of the protests led to actual regime
changes and a move towards freedom and
democracy – such as in Tunisia – events in
other states in the region, such as Bahrain and
Syria, had been less successful and saw the return of the ‘old order’ of autocratic governments. The collapse of Muammar
Gaddafi’s regime in ...Read more > | 22 Pages 464.47 KB |
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 | HYBRID WARFARE: THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF CONFLICT By Vikrant Deshpande
Are conventional wars or ‘war as we knew it’ over? A scan of recent
conflicts, which are characterised by blurring lines between war and peace,
state and non-state, regular and irregular, conventional and
unconventional, seems to suggest so. An attempt to answer this question
in binaries is fraught with complications. A positive proclamation would
render a nation vulnerable to conventional ...Read more > | 218 Pages 10.40 MB |
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 | THE EVOLUTION OF HYBRID WARFARE AND KEY CHALLENGES By HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The committee
meets today to examine the challenge posed by unconventional
forms of warfare. A variety of terms are used to describe it: hybrid
warfare, indirect warfare, the gray zone, and others. Americans are
used to thinking of a binary state of either war or peace. That is
the way our organizations, doctrine, and approaches are ...Read more > | 81 Pages 2.84 MB |
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 | MCDC COUNTERING HYBRID WARFARE PROJECT: COUNTERING HYBRID WARFARE By A Multinational Capability Development Campaign project
Hybrid warfare is the synchronized use of multiple instruments of power
tailored to specific vulnerabilities across the full spectrum of societal functions
to achieve synergistic effects. The challenge presented by revisionist actors who
exploit hybrid warfare has a broad impact across societies, national government
and multinational institutions.
The purpose of this handbook is to inform national and multinational ...Read more > | 94 Pages 2.66 MB |
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 | THE EVOLUTION OF HYBRID WARFARE AND KEY CHALLENGES By Francis G. Hoffman
Mr. Chairman Thornberry, Ranking Member Mr. Smith, and distinguished members of the
committee, it is an honor to appear again before you and speak on the threats facing our country.
I thank you for this opportunity to participate and address the key challenges generated by the
convergence of modes of warfare represented by hybrid threats and other forms of conflict.
Our Joint forces must be ready and able to respond to challenges across the full spectrum
of ...Read more > | 11 Pages 173.72 KB |
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 | THE LANDSCAPE OF HYBRID THREATS: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL PUBLIC VERSION By Giannopoulos, G. Smith, H. Theocharidou, M.
In recent years, the topic of Hybrid Threats has
dominated the security landscape in Europe.
Whereas it may be considered a new topic by
several stakeholders, in actual fact it is not. It is as
old as conflict and warfare, but repackaged and
empowered by changing security environment
dynamics, new tools, concepts and technologies
targeting vulnerabilities in several domains in an
unprecedented ...Read more > | 58 Pages 2.28 MB |
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 | USING HYBRID WAR THEORY TO SHAPE FUTURE U. S. GENERATIONAL DOCTRINE By Justin Baumann
“Russia has dedicated their efforts over the last 20 years to two main areas: learning from their own conflicts in
Chechnya and Georgia, and learning from our involvement in the Global War on Terror. The combination of these has
resulted in focused modernization that began in earnest in 2008 designed to defeat U.S. systems, prevent effective
command and control, and deny key weapon systems access to the battlefield. Now the onus is on the U.S. Army to
look inward and determine how to ...Read more > | 11 Pages 651.13 KB |
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 | A STRATEGIC CONCEPT FOR COUNTERING RUSSIAN AND CHINESE HYBRID THREATS By Lauren Speranza
Tackling hybrid threats, particularly from state actors such as Russia and China, remains one of
the greatest challenges for the transatlantic community. Hybrid threats have gained more traction
among policymakers and publics across Europe and the
United States, especially in a world with COVID-19. The
recent coronavirus pandemic has thrust hybrid activities
to the center of transatlantic debates. Both China and
Russia capitalized on the crisis to wage ...Read more > | 28 Pages 2.20 MB |
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