Russia's Hybrid War in Theory and Practice
Volume 2, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 157–182
Pub. online: 1 June 2016
Type: Research Article
Open Access
Published
1 June 2016
1 June 2016
Abstract
The warfare is evolving and it is confirmed by last
conflicts in which Russia was involved. They were asymmetric in nature and their objectives, developments, consequences in broader sense and end states have been a matter of research by many scholars. The nature of those conflicts is causing concerns and a question if there were randomly run or just perfectly synchronized operations? If so, should a hybrid war be considered a way of strategy and its objectives seen through the prism of the Russia’s interests? The answer to this question can be obtained after the evaluation of the theory and practice employed by the Russian Federation in the concept of hybrid war. This is the purpose of this article. The results of the research are presented by solving the following problem: What does the concept of the new generation warfare mean?