Hybrid Warfare (merged thread)

[SWJ Blog]

Putin's Information Warfare in Ukraine: Soviet Origins in Russia's Hybrid Warfare

[davidbfpo]

Two versions of this article by Dr Rod Thornton, now @ Kings War Studies, are available and the titles used vary. His bio:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/department.../thornton.aspx

An Abstract:

While Western militaries recognise the logic and necessity of ‘irregular warfare’ in their military operations, the manifold aspects of irregular fighting have yet to be mastered fully. Information warfare, for example, appears to be a tool more capably employed by Russia, to the detriment of NATO. Rod Thornton explains how and why Russia has ‘won’ in Crimea by affording subversive information campaigns primacy in its military operations. Acknowledging the twofold constraints of international law and co-ordination that face Western governments seeking to play the same game, Thornton nonetheless expounds how the West might better pursue asymmetry in the security realm.

The shorter version 'Russian Hybrid Warfare' is via this blogsite:http://defenceindepth.co/2015/10/12/...ybrid-warfare/

The full version from the RUSI Journal is fully available, unusually IMHO, on:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/....2015.1079047.

[AdamG]

From theoretical to practical application, interested parties might want to read this post and the parent thread -
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...7&postcount=87