Dan Goure
Hybrid War, Eurasia
The answer is with another network, one made up of intelligence analysts, police, civil affairs officers, Special Forces, militias and national guards and conventional military forces.
Much has been made over the past three years in Western policy statements, intelligence assessments, military plans and think tank analyses of the asymmetric or hybrid warfare conducted by Russia in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The essence of this supposedly new type of warfare involves the coordinated, extensive use of all the instruments of state power – classic political subversion, cyber operations, organized local paramilitary units and covert invasions by …read more
Source: The National Interest