Hybrid Warfare and Its Manifestations in the Crisis in Ukraine
Hybrid Warfare and Its Manifestations in the Crisis in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The form of war that Russia admitted to using in Crimea and tried to use in Ukraine, too, came to be known as “hybrid warfare”*. This phrase has already been included in numerous articles, papers and news reports**, and after the summit in September 2014 in Wales, the concept of hybrid warfare was adopted by NATO. It is also noteworthy that this phrase originally had a different meaning, and clarifying the issues of semantic thinking requires a brief resort to history to study the origin of the concept and its later development.This scientific article will be completed by using a few of the analysis and research methods specific to sociology, but very well fitted to the military science domain. Through the method of data collection, which is an empirical one, we will analyse the meaning of hybrid warfare in Western and Russian doctrines and its manifestations in the crisis in Ukraine. Furthermore, we will watch the hybrid warfare evolution using the historic method from the very beginning, when William J. Nemeth mentioned for the first time this phrase, to Gerasimov’s non-linear concept. The balance that we will thus achieve between the theoretical elements of the hybrid warfare and the way the Ukraine crisis developed will demonstrate that this conflict was a hybrid one within all its components. By using the analysis method, we have managed to develop this article and its argumentative support.

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