Hybrid warfare and hybrid threats today and tomorrow: towards an analytical framework

Weissmann, Mikael

doi:10.2478/jobs-2019-0002

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“…− a hierarchical set of legal norms and principles regulating the content and process of information security policy implementation, that is, the legal mechanism for ensuring information security (Mumford &Carlucci, 2022), (Zvezdova & Vakalyuk, 2022), (Weissmann, 2019).…”

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Information Security of the State Under Conditions of Hybrid Warfare: Mechanisms of Ensuring

Ablazov

Harkavyi

Mokliak

et al. 2023

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Taking into account the tendencies of democratization and informatization of all sectors of the economy and spheres of public administration, and, accordingly, the increase in information risks, the vast majority of countries in the world today go through a series of stages of ensuring information security. Despite the legislatively established powers of the relevant state authorities and local self-government in this area, the issues of defining their competence and effective interaction are real and effective guarantees of preventing a variety of information threats to national security as in this case effective and timely ways of eliminating existing dangers are provided. Given that large-scale invasions and hybrid wars can cause catastrophic harm and undermine public confidence in the government, the state must make quick decisions. Consequently, establishing an effective mechanism for ensuring information security has become more relevant than ever nowadays. The purpose of the academic paper is to clarify the theoretical fundamentals, as well as the components, directions and other critical practical aspects of the process of ensuring the state’s information security under conditions of hybrid warfare. Methodology. In the course of the research, abstraction, idealization, system-structural, comparative, logical-linguistic methods, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction were used to process scientific information on issues of the state’s information security. Results. Based on the research results, the features of the process of ensuring the state’s information security in a hybrid war were studied and certain practical aspects of this issue were clarified.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Information Security of the State Under Conditions of Hybrid Warfare: Mechanisms of Ensuring

Ablazov

Harkavyi

Mokliak

et al. 2023

KJHSS

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“…Although the terms hybrid warfare and hybrid and the Future of War Series (Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of War, September 2020), 16-17, https://www.understandingwar.org/report/russian-hybrid-warfare. 23 threats are frequently used synonymously by European analysts, 27 policy documents normally refer to hybrid "threats" rather than hybrid "warfare." Overall, there has been insufficient effort to differentiate between the two terms, although Sean Monaghan has made perhaps the most definitive and useful distinction:…”

Section: Hybrid Threatsmentioning

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Hybrid Warfare Revisited: A Battle of ‘Buzzwords’

Wither

2023

Connections QJ

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Hybrid warfare is the most common term used by commentators to describe the complexity and multifaceted character of contemporary warfare. Hybrid warfare refers to coercive methods of strategic competition that take place below the threshold of conventional military conflict and is usually applied to the blend of military and non-military methods of warfare employed by the West's principal adversaries, Russia and China. The term hybrid warfare has evolved from an essentially military concept to one that potentially embraces all the instruments of state power. Hybrid warfare remains an ill-defined and contested term, and there are many other buzzwords, such as irregular warfare, hybrid threats, and gray zone aggression, that are used to describe the same phenomenon. This article examines the evolution of thinking on hybrid warfare and these related concepts. It highlights the challenges that scholars and practitioners have faced in trying to define and apply these terms in the policy environment in a manner that promotes common understanding and strategic coherence.

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“…In 2005, Mattis et al stated that “Our conventional superiority creates a compelling logic for states and non-state actors to move out of the traditional mode of war and seek some niche capability or some unexpected combination of technologies and tactics to gain an advantage.” ( 22 ). Although the term “hybrid warfare” appeared along with irregular and asymmetric warfare, hybrid warfare rose to prominence in academic literature around 2014 to describe a change in the character of conflict ( 23 ). Under this assessment, adversaries combine conventional, unconventional, and irregular approaches with non-military means to neutralize superior conventional military power.…”

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Known and Unknown Transboundary Infectious Diseases as Hybrid Threats

Valdivia-Granda¹

2021

Front. Public Health

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The pathogenicity, transmissibility, environmental stability, and potential for genetic manipulation make microbes hybrid threats that could blur the distinction between peace and war. These agents can fall below the detection, attribution, and response capabilities of a nation and seriously affect their health, trade, and security. A framework that could enhance horizon scanning regarding the potential risk of microbes used as hybrid threats requires not only accurately discriminating known and unknown pathogens but building novel scenarios to deploy mitigation strategies. This demands the transition of analyst-based biosurveillance tracking a narrow set of pathogens toward an autonomous biosurveillance enterprise capable of processing vast data streams beyond human cognitive capabilities. Autonomous surveillance systems must gather, integrate, analyze, and visualize billions of data points from different and unrelated sources. Machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms can contextualize capability information for different stakeholders at different levels of resolution: strategic and tactical. This document provides a discussion of the use of microorganisms as hybrid threats and considerations to quantitatively estimate their risk to ensure societal awareness, preparedness, mitigation, and resilience.

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Hybrid warfare and hybrid threats today and tomorrow: towards an analytical framework

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Information Security of the State Under Conditions of Hybrid Warfare: Mechanisms of Ensuring

Information Security of the State Under Conditions of Hybrid Warfare: Mechanisms of Ensuring

Hybrid Warfare Revisited: A Battle of ‘Buzzwords’

Known and Unknown Transboundary Infectious Diseases as Hybrid Threats

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