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The hybrid age : international security in the era of hybrid warfare / Brin Najžer.

Summary:

"Humankind has always sought out innovative and new ways of waging war, establishing new forms of warfare. Set against a background of global strategic instability this process of innovation has, over the last two decades, produced a new and complex phenomenon, hybrid warfare. Distinct from other forms of modern warfare in several key aspects, it presents a unique challenge that appears to baffle policymakers and security experts, while giving the actors that employ it a new way of achieving their goals in the face of long-standing Western conventional, doctrinal, and strategic superiority. The Hybrid Age analyses the phenomenon of hybrid warfare through theoretical frameworks and a range global case studies from the 2006 Lebanon War to the Russian intervention in Ukraine in 2014. This book aims to establish a unified theory of hybrid warfare, which not only outlines what the term means, but also places it in its context, and provides the tools which enable an observer to identify and react to a future instance of hybrid warfare."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0755602536
ISBN: 9780755602520
ISBN: 0755602528
ISBN: 9780755602537
Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 p.)
Publisher: London : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2020.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- About the author -- Preface -- Introduction -- Structure -- Chapter 1: Theory of hybrid warfare -- The causes of war and the pursuit of security -- Realist theory and hybrid warfare -- Chapter 2: The definition of hybrid warfare -- What does 'hybrid' mean? -- What is 'warfare'? -- Hybrid warfare -- The definition -- What makes hybrid different -- A hybrid vocabulary -- Chapter 3: The hybrid framework and the quinity -- The international order -- The nature and character of war -- The quinity -- Quinitarian and hybrid warfare

Chapter 4: Hybrid warfare strategy -- Security strategy and defence planning -- Common themes and issues -- A unified theory of hybrid warfare -- Chapter 5: Hezbollah and state-like hybrid warfare -- Overview of the 2006 Lebanon War -- A hybrid war -- Early hybrid warfare -- Chapter 6: Russia and hybrid warfare -- Prelude to Ukraine -- Hybrid warfare in Ukraine -- Hallmarks of Russian hybrid warfare -- Chapter 7: South China Sea and non-kinetic maritime hybrid warfare -- The maritime domain -- Maritime hybrid warfare -- Chinese operations in the South China Sea

Kinetic and non-kinetic warfare in the maritime domain -- The future of hybrid warfare -- Conclusion -- The future of hybrid warfare -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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