Book Review: ‘The Weaponisation of Everything’ by Mark Galeotti

Abstract

Published a month prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 24 February 2022, Mark Galeotti’s The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War is nevertheless relevant and important reading for those studying how to fight hybrid warfare. Galeotti, as the inadvertent inventor of the phrase ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’, is keen that this book is not seen as advocacy for the new way of war, but rather a guide to a way of war that is increasingly playing out on the global stage. You may know it as ‘Grey Zone Warfare. Asymmetric War. Tolerance Warfare. Unrestricted War. Non-Linear Warfare.’ (p. 14) Or, in current military parlance, sub-threshold conflict.