by Murat Caliskan | Apr 20, 2019 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
A Critique of Hybrid Warfare Concept It was retired Marine Officer Frank Hoffman who popularised the Hybrid warfare concept in a series of articles and books since it was first publicly used in 2005 in a conference, by General Mattis, the U.S. General Secretary of...
by Antonios Nestoras* | Apr 19, 2019 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
There are many labels to describe the issues linked with the return of great power competition in the cyber era in search for conceptual clarity. I am going to talk briefly about two of them – political warfare and hybrid warfare. The definition of hybrid...
by Saban Yuksel | Apr 18, 2019 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management
Operation Sophia was quietly and officially extended until 30 September 2019 following longstanding negotiations among member states. Political and Security Committee (PSC) reached a flawed last-minute compromise on March 29th, the last working day for an extension of...
by Andrii Nadzhos* | Apr 18, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
I would like to touch upon the global geopolitical challenge – temporary occupation of Crimea that will be discussed in the framework of today’s conference. Since beginning of the so-called Referendum in Crimea in March 2014 which fully contradicted with the...
by Žiga Turk* | Apr 14, 2019 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Disinformation is used as a political weapon. It’s not a new phenomenon, it used to exist and it will be in the future. It is just one of the tools from the toolbox of a wider effort that is called influence operations which is probably part of the hybrid warfare....
by Hall Gardner* | Apr 13, 2019 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Concept of Political Warfare stems from Clausewitz: Condensed Version: « War is a continuation of politics by other means… war is therefore an act of violence to force the opponent to fulfil our will. A deeper reading of Clausewitz implies that war represents...
