Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hybrid Warfare refers to a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, so-called ‘irregular warfare’ and cyber-attacks with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy and foreign political intervention. As Hybrid Warfare becomes increasingly commonplace, there is an imminent need for research bringing attention to how these challenges can be addressed in order to develop a comprehensive approach towards Hybrid Threats and Hybrid Warfare. This volume supports the development of such an approach by bringing together practitioners and scholarly perspectives on the topic and by covering the threats themselves, as well as the tools and means to counter them, together with a number of real-world case studies. The book covers numerous aspects of current Hybrid Warfare discourses including a discussion of the perspectives of key western actors such as NATO, the US and the EU; an analysis of Russia and China’s Hybrid Warfare capabilities; and the growing threat of cyberwarfare. A range of global case studies – featuring specific examples from the Baltics, Taiwan, Ukraine, Iran and Catalonia – are drawn upon to demonstrate the employment of Hybrid Warfare tactics and how they have been countered in practice. Finally, the editors propose a new method through which to understand the dynamics of Hybrid Threats, Warfare and their countermeasures, termed the ‘Hybridity Blizzard Model’. With a focus on practitioner insight and practicable International Relations theory, this volume is an essential guide to identifying, analysing and countering Hybrid Threats and Warfare. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Foreword – Hybrid threats and hybrid warfare Chapter 1: Security challenges in the grey zoneHybrid threats and hybrid warfare Part I: The view of practitioners Chapter 2: NATO and hybrid warfare: Seeking a concept to describe the challenge from Russia Chapter 3: An American view: Hybrid threats and intelligence Chapter 4: A perspective on EU hybrid threat early warning efforts Part II: Tools and means Chapter 5: Conceptualizing and countering hybrid threats and hybrid warfare: The role of the military in the grey zone Chapter 6: Understanding Russian thinking on gibridnaya voyna Chapter 7: China and its hybrid warfare spectrum Chapter 8: Influence operations and the modern information environment Chapter 9: Hybrid threats and new challenges for multilateral intelligence cooperation Chapter 10: Cyberwarfare and the internet: The implications of a more digitalized world Part III: Cases Chapter 11: The US and hybrid challenges: Past, present and future Chapter 12: China’s political warfare in Taiwan: Strategies, methods and global implications Chapter 13: Hybrid warfare in the Baltics Chapter 14: De-hybridization and conflict narration: Ukraine’s defence against Russian hybrid warfare Chapter 15: Iran’s hybrid warfare capabilities Chapter 16: Information influencing in the Catalan illegal referendum and beyond Part IV: Conclusions Chapter 17: Moving out of the blizzard: Towards a comprehensive approach to hybrid threats and hybrid warfare Selected bibliography Index