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- Title
Hybrid warfare - identifying the cause of potential conflict is important - not the ways and means?
- Authors
Fuchs, Georg F.
- Abstract
Modern warfare "blurs the lines between war and politics, conflict and peace, soldier and civilian, and battlefield violence and safe zones. The new form of warfare has arisen from the loss of the nation-state's monopoly on violence; from the rise of cultural, ethnic, and religious conflict; a changed narrative for participation in conflict and from the spread of globalization, particularly advanced technology"(Williamson, 2009, p.3). It is more important to understand the potential aggressor and its motivation to conduct aggressive action, than discuss the ways and means he will deploy during confrontation. The adaptability, agility of forces and access to modern, global communication and modern technologies as well as resources, enables actors other than states and increases states' portfolios during modern war fighting. The discussion of the difference between asymmetric or irregular warfare and hybrid warfare is not academic only. It is even to question if the so-called hybrid warfare is something new at all. Hoffman argues that "hybrid wars are not new". More frequently it is stated by experts that there is nothing new regarding hybrid warfare and it is just a new abbreviation for an old type of warfare. The legal framework for international conflict is not meeting the modern conflict realities and it is required to review and adapt them accordingly. Traditional mechanisms for conflict mitigation and the relevance of time and space during conflicts are changing dramatically and will inflict a far more complex conflict environment. Near real time access to information, powerful pictures, the availability of the internet and access to resources and high sophisticated technology will increase the power of small proxies or networks. The state will lose its monopoly of power and the borders between internal and external security within states and regions will diminish. Modern warfare will be adaptive, agile, well-resourced and very unlikely conducted between states in a conventional manner. The better states are willing to accept these changes and conduct modernization accordingly the better will they be prepared for future conflicts.
- Subjects
IRREGULAR warfare; POLITICAL participation; SECTARIAN conflict
- Publication
Online Journal Modelling the New Europe, 2016, Issue 21, p77
- ISSN
2247-0514
- Publication type
Article