DIMENSIUNEA HIBRIDĂ A CONFLICTULUI RUSO - UCRAINEAN
HYBRID WAR, A KEY DIMENSION OF THE RUSSIAN - UKRAINIAN CONFLICT
Author(s): Liviu IoniţăSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: hybrid warfare; hybrid threat; hybrid conflict; non-linear warfare; conventional; non-conventional; Ukraine; Russian Federation
Summary/Abstract: The role of the Russian Federation in Ukraine crisis has revealed the dimension and significant impact that a comprehensive hybrid threat can encompass when appropriate conventional and nonconventional, military and non-military means are engaged within a dynamic mechanism designed to approach an enemy by targeting its weakness and taking full advantage of your own strengths. Russian General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff, pointed out that the role of non-military means in achieving strategic military objectives had significantly increased and in many cases surpassed the strength provided by weapons, while US manual for military operations emphasizes that the operational environment will be increasingly characterized by hybrid threats seen as a combination of regular and irregular elements able to create a competitive security environment.
Journal: Buletinul Universităţii Naţionale de Apărare »Carol I«
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 14-22
- Page Count: 9
