MILITARY ASPECTS HYBRID WARFARE`S COUNTERING: CONTENT AND LESSONS LEARNED

Abstract

Military actions of Russian Federation in the Eastern Ukraine since February 2014 has activated paradigm of armed conflict, when the aggressor does not display himself. Such a model, which integrates different means of conventional warfare, regular and irregular formations, terrorism and separatism, is well known since the beginning of 21 centuries as the hybrid war. Such a change of modern warfare paradigm and hybrid aggression of Russian Federation against Ukraine have built up impetus for acceleration transformation and structural changes in Security and Defence Sector (SDS) of Ukraine. Creation and effective functioning SDS of Ukraine which corresponds to modern armed conflict is impossible without scientific analysis of the military aspects hybrid war and comprehensive diagnostic the problems of functioning existing system of military security in the conditions of the Joint Forces operation. In the article has analysed the military aspects of hybrid war and proposed priority directions of Russian hybrid war countering as well as future hybrid threats.

Keywords

• hybrid warfare
• defense of state
• armed forces employment
• defence forces, c2 of armed forces
• joint management of defence forces