Hybrid Warfare (merged thread)

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The thread has been re-opened for the next post. Eight SWJ Blog posts have been merged in too.

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Via the blog Defence-in-Depth a comment by Dr Chris Tuck, which opens with:

Why does hybrid war cast such a long shadow over Western conceptions of future threats? The ubiquity of the idea of hybrid war is interesting given the many serious problems with the concept.

The comment ends with:

We are afraid; and because of this we have invented for ourselves the perfect enemy. We feel increasingly insecure, increasingly fearful; we have as a consequence created the image of a potent new threat from powerful adversaries who suffer none of our problems and by-pass our strengths. But intellectually, the concept of hybrid war says more about our fears than it does about any genuinely new model of war. This is not to say that that the current security environment isn’t difficult and dangerous. However, if we stopped connecting together all of our difficulties, multiplying them by the assumption of superior adversaries and then labelling them hybrid war, we might find these challenges easier to address.

Link:https://defenceindepth.co/2017/04/25...perfect-enemy/