Rosyjskie rozwinięcia teorii „małej wojny”. Wymiar historyczny i współczesny
The Russian Development of the “Small Wars” Theory: Historical and Contemporary Dimension

Summary/Abstract: After the Cold War, analysts in many countries were unable to accurately rationalise the emerging threats that did not fit into the contemporaneous concepts and could not be clearly classified. The search for a new canon of martial art led military people, polemologists and experts to define the phenomenon of new wars as conflicts referred to as „hybrid wars”. However, this attempt turned out to be insufficient, as it did not allow to unequivocally determine the nature of future wars and conflicts, especially in view of the ambiguity of events in Ukraine or North Africa. The paper is devoted to the analysis of what is important from the point of view of the theory and practice of the art of war, i.e. the Western and Russian authors’ views on the phenomenon that combines a variety of forms and methods of conventional and irregular (guerrilla) actions against a historical and contemporary backdrop.

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