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Small Wars & InsurgenciesVolume 27, Issue 2, 2016Special Issue: Proxy Actors, Militias and Irregular Forces: The New Frontier of War? |
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Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia’s ‘new way of war’?
- DOI:
- 10.1080/09592318.2015.1129170
pages 282-301
- Received: 7 Aug 2015
- Accepted: 10 Oct 2015
- Published online: 21 Mar 2016
Abstract
Russia’s recent operations in Ukraine, especially the integrated use of militias, gangsters, information operations, intelligence, and special forces, have created a concern in the West about a ‘new way of war’, sometimes described as ‘hybrid’. However, not only are many of the tactics used familiar from Western operations, they also have their roots in Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian practice. They are distinctive in terms of the degree to which they are willing to give primacy to ‘non-kinetic’ means, the scale of integration of non-state actors, and tight linkage between political and military command structures. However, this is all largely a question of degree rather than true qualitative novelty. Instead, what is new is the contemporary political, military, technological, and social context in which new wars are being fought.
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- Received: 7 Aug 2015
- Accepted: 10 Oct 2015
- Published online: 21 Mar 2016
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- a Center for Global Affairs, New York University, New York, USA
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