The Hybrid Approach: How Strategic Competitors Have Changed the Character of War

Abstract

To level the playing field against superior military and economic rivals, peer competitors such as Russia are changing the character of war by engaging in Hybrid Warfare and employing a fusion of indirect, asymmetric, and non-lethal methods in concert with conventional military capabilities to influence the operating environment often in the Gray Zone between traditional peace and war contexts. Divided into two chapters, this essay will discuss the changes in the operating environment since the fall of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War era and efforts by Russia to destabilize and delegitimize the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies through the effective application of unconventional means across all domains of warfare, but particularly within the cyberspace and information domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2018
Accession Number
AD1177120

Entities

People

  • Valerie A Mcguire

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Theory
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Gray Zone
  • Hybrid Threats
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • Information Operations
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Capabilities
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • New York
  • Propaganda
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Treaties
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber