HYBRID WARFARE – AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE GENERAL THEORY OF WARFARE
HYBRID WARFARE – AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE GENERAL THEORY OF WARFARE

Author(s): Cristian Bărbulescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: hybrid warfare, hybrid threat; hybridity; state actor; non-state actor;
Summary/Abstract: The way the conflict in Ukraine evolved and the consequences it generated at the regional and global level reopened the debates in the academic circles on the changes of the postmodern war physiognomy.This paper highlights the complementarity of various military literature contributions to the development of a theory of hybrid warfare and provides a useful framework for the elimination of confusion and fuzziness that persists in literature on “hybrid warfare” concept by dissociating the meanings assigned to different associated concepts (hybrid actions and hybrid threats). In essence,the comparative analysis conducted explains, from a perspective of the general theory of war, why hybrid war does not represent a new type of war, claiming the omnipresent character of hybridity in the evolutionary stages of this phenomenon

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