Hybrid warfare: Conceptual adaptation

Abstract

The process of transforming the war of a multidimensional character and various tactics caused by modern threats to national, global and regional security and conditioned by technological development and manifested in different forms - conventional, unconventional, asymmetric, nonlinear, etc., requires a new approach in the analysis of conflict. In such context, at the beginning of the 21st century, with new challenges to national, regional and international security, there is the intention to determine and conceptualize hybrid threats and hybrid warfare. It is a very complex process that will have to identify and formulate the relationship between geopolitical situation, contemporary security challenges, risks and manifestation of atypical contemporary conflicts in order to, as precisely as possible, doctrinally regulate hybrid warfare. Using specific geopolitical analyses and analyzing the conflicts since 2006, with the focus on the application of non-standard tactics and new technologies, this paper has done conceptual adaptation of hybrid warfare.

Keywords

• hybrid warfare
• hybrid threats
• concept