Rusya’nın 2014 Ukrayna Krizi’ndeki Hibrit Savaş Stratejisi( Russia’s Hybrid War Strategy in the 2014 Ukraine Crisis)

Abstract

This study analyzes the main characteristics of hybrid warfare and how it is applied in practice through Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. Although researchers have not reached a consensus on the definition of hybrid warfare, it is a kind of war in which both state and non-state actors engage using increasing obscurity and invisibility and various types of war such as conventional capabilities, irregular tactics, acts of terrorism, violence, and oppression. Hybrid warfare with traditional and modern war concepts provides states the opportunity to reach targets that they cannot reach by using many other different means. In this context, in the first part of the study, the definition and characteristics of hybrid wars were mentioned, then the components of hybrid warfare were revealed and in the last part, it is analyzed how Russia applied the hybrid war theory in the Ukraine War.

Keywords

• hybrid warfare
• russia
• ukraine