Hybrid Warfare And The Gray Zone Threat

Author : Douglas Lovelace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190255312

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Hybrid Warfare and the Gray Zone Threat by Douglas Lovelace Pdf

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests. Volume 141, Hybrid Warfare and the Gray Zone Threat, considers the mutation of the international security environment brought on by decades of unrivaled U.S. conventional military power. The term "hybrid warfare" encompasses conventional warfare, irregular warfare, cyberwarfare, insurgency, criminality, economic blackmail, ethnic warfare, "lawfare", and the application of low-cost but effective technologies to thwart high-cost technologically advanced forces. This volume is divided into five sections covering different aspects of this topic, each of which is introduced by expert commentary written by series editor Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr. This volume contains thirteen useful documents exploring various facets of the shifting international security environment, including a detailed report on hybrid warfare issued by the Joint Special Operations University and a White Paper on special operations forces support to political warfare prepared by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, as well as a GAO report and a CRS report covering similar topics. Specific coverage is also given to topics such as cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, the efficacy of sanctions in avoiding and deterring hybrid warfare threats, and the intersection of the military and domestic U.S. law enforcement.

Author : Aurel Sari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197744772

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Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict by Aurel Sari Pdf

Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict explores the legal dimension of strategic competition below the threshold of war, assessing the key legal and ethical questions posed for liberal democracies. Bringing together diverse scholarly and practitioner perspectives, the volume introduces readers to the conceptual and practical difficulties arising in this area, the rich debates the topic has generated, and the challenges that countering hybrid threats and grey zone conflict poses for liberal democracies.

Author : Elisabeth Braw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780844750415

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The Defender's Dilemma by Elisabeth Braw Pdf

National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. In this book, Elisabeth Braw offers the first sustained analysis of how new tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents strategies for better defense against it.

Author : Elizabeth Troeder,Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Hybrid warfare
ISBN : 107654326X

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A Whole-of-Government Approach to Gray Zone Warfare by Elizabeth Troeder,Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute Pdf

Gray zone warfare, also known as irregular warfare, political warfare, hybrid warfare, asymmetric warfare, and unconventional warfare, is a significant concern today, threatening U.S. national security as well as the security of U.S. allies and partners. Despite its population's immense capacity for creativity and innovation, the United States is losing this war. This monograph builds the case for convening a National Security Council/Deputies Committee (NSC/DC) meeting whenever a gray zone solution is needed to ensure a solution is developed from a whole-of-government perspective, and that a standing National Security Council/Policy Coordination Committee (NSC/PCC) for gray zone solutions be established so that subject matter experts from all appropriate government agencies and organizations can be quickly assembled in times of crisis.

Author : Elizabeth Troeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1651245479

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A Whole-Of-Government Approach to Gray Zone Warfare by Elizabeth Troeder Pdf

Gray zone warfare, also known as irregular warfare, political warfare, hybrid warfare, asymmetric warfare, and unconventional warfare, is increasingly becoming the norm. It is a significant concern today, threatening U.S. national security as well as the security of U.S. allies and partners. Despite its population's immense capacity for creativity and innovation, the United States is losing this war. The Department of Defense (DoD) has historically led the gray zone war fight with assistance from other Federal agencies. However, it cannot require other agencies to engage, and it cannot be aware of all of the effective tools available across the whole-of-government, nor can it know how its proposed way forward may conflict with approaches made by other agencies. This monograph provides an assessment of the gray zone tactics used against the most active U.S. adversaries, and builds the case for requiring U.S. Federal agencies to request that the Deputy National Security Advisor convene a National Security Council/Deputies Committee (NSC/DC) meeting whenever any Federal agency deems a gray zone approach to an international issue is appropriate. It also recommends that a standing National Security Council/Policy Coordination Committee (NSC/PCC) for gray zone solutions be developed, with sub-NSC/PCCs for each of the most active adversaries so that experts can be quickly assembled in times of crisis.

Author : Mikael Weissmann,Niklas Nilsson,Per Thunholm,Björn Palmertz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788317115

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Hybrid Warfare by Mikael Weissmann,Niklas Nilsson,Per Thunholm,Björn Palmertz Pdf

An examination of the most recent hybrid warfare approaches and threats.

Author : Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975994396

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The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare and Key Challenges by Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Pdf

The United States and its joint forces must be able to respond to challenges across the full spectrum of conflict. Our tendency as a country to ignore forms of conflict that are not conventional and kinetic in character has impeded our performance in the past and will continue to do so until we grasp the full set of conflict types. A variety of terms are used to describe unconventional forms of warfare: hybrid warfare, indirect warfare, the gray zone, and others. Americans are used to thinking of a binary state of either war or peace. That is the way our organizations, doctrine, and approaches are geared. Other countries, including Russia, China, and Iran, use a wider array of centrally controlled, or at least centrally directed, instruments of national power and influence to achieve their objectives. Whether it is contributing to foreign political parties, targeted assassinations of opponents, infiltrating non-uniformed personnel such as the little green men, traditional media and social media, influence operations, or cyber-connected activity, all of these tactics and more are used to advance their national interests and most often to damage American national interests. These tactics are not new. The historical records suggest that hybrid warfare in one form or another may well be the norm for human conflict, rather than the exception.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428910324

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Fighting in the Gray Zone: A Strategy to Close the Preemption Gap by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth G. Troeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1379688097

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WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT APPROACH TO GRAY ZONE WARFARE. by Elizabeth G. Troeder Pdf

Author : Ofer Fridman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190934736

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Russian "Hybrid Warfare" by Ofer Fridman Pdf

During the last decade, 'Hybrid Warfare' has become a novel yet controversial term in academic, political and professional military lexicons, intended to suggest some sort of mix between different military and non-military means and methods of confrontation. Enthusiastic discussion of the notion has been undermined by conceptual vagueness and political manipulation, particularly since the onset of the Ukrainian Crisis in early 2014, as ideas about Hybrid Warfare engulf Russia and the West, especially in the media. Western defense and political specialists analyzing Russian responses to the crisis have been quick to confirm that Hybrid Warfare is the Kremlin's main strategy in the twenty-first century. But many respected Russian strategists and political observers contend that it is the West that has been waging Hybrid War, Gibridnaya Voyna, since the end of the Cold War. In this highly topical book, Ofer Fridman offers a clear delineation of the conceptual debates about Hybrid Warfare. What leads Russian experts to say that the West is conducting a Gibridnaya Voyna against Russia, and what do they mean by it? Why do Western observers claim that the Kremlin engages in Hybrid Warfare? And, beyond terminology, is this something genuinely new?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Hybrid warfare
ISBN : IND:30000159040330

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The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare and Key Challenges by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Michael J. Mazarr,Strategic Studies Institute,U. S. Army War College
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1329784618

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Mastering the Gray Zone by Michael J. Mazarr,Strategic Studies Institute,U. S. Army War College Pdf

"Discussions of an emerging practice of 'gray zone' conflict have become increasingly common throughout the U.S. Army and the wider national security community, but the concept remains ill-defined and poorly understood. This monograph aims to contribute to the emerging dialogue about competition and rivalry in the gray zone by defining the term, comparing and contrasting it with related theories, and offering tentative hypotheses about this increasingly important form of state competition. The idea of operating gradually and somewhat covertly to remain below key thresholds of response is hardly new. Many approaches being used today -- such as support for proxy forces and insurgent militias -- have been employed for millennia. The monograph argues that the emergence of this more coherent and intentional form of gray zone conflict is best understood as the confluence of three factors. Understood in this context, gray zone strategies can be defined as a form of conflict that pursues political objectives through integrated campaigns; employs mostly nonmilitary or nonkinetic tools; strives to remain under key escalatory or red line thresholds to avoid outright conventional conflict; and moves gradually toward its objectives rather than seeking conclusive results in a relatively limited period of time. Having examined the scope and character of gray zone conflict, the monograph offers seven hypotheses about this emerging form of rivalry. Finally, the monograph offers recommendations for the United States and its friends and allies to deal with this challenge"--Publisher's web site.

Author : Giray Sadik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443891844

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Europe's Hybrid Threats by Giray Sadik Pdf

Hybrid threats posed by various combinations of state and non-state actors have presented considerable transnational challenges to EU-members and NATO-allies. This ongoing rise of hybrid threats, ranging from political instability in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to the resulting mass refugee influx and terrorism in the European neighborhood, stress the need to timely discuss important questions about hybrid threats and the venues for effective Euro-Atlantic cooperation, including post-Brexit policy implications. This edited volume presents comprehensive analyses from various experts on these interrelated issues, and, thus, represents an essential source for scholars and practitioners of European politics and international relations with an interest in contemporary transnational security issues. In addition, this book will be useful as up-to-date coursework material for courses on European security and foreign policy, international security and strategic studies, unconventional warfare, and transatlantic relations.

Author : David K. Linnan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780275998158

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Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law by David K. Linnan Pdf

With a renewed emphasis on national and homeland security, the United States is once again seeking to balance the needs of the state with both the rights of its citizens as well as those of other nations. This book represents an interdisciplinary approach to the legal dilemmas borne out by the war on terror-against the specific background of Afghanistan, Iraq, and this new kind of conflict. It is a strong contribution to a broader debate visible since 9/11, which will remain in the public eye for the foreseeable future. It addresses the overlap between religion, ethics, armed conflict, and law, within the context of the current conflict. While many issues in areas such as intelligence, reconciliation of civil liberties, dealing with terrorist threats, and the permissible bounds of interrogation, treatment of prisoners and laws governing armed conflict have long standing precedents under domestic and international law, this war has challenged even long standing legal interpretations. The contributors to this volume explore those precedents and contemporary challenges to them. Now that traditional wars between nation states are no longer the rule, the terrorist threat has gained credence (popularly, terrorism and its claimed breeding ground in failed states), linked in practice to issues of intervention on the territory of states harboring such groups. In military circles the idea of armed struggle between modern military forces and what were formerly called guerillas has now largely been replaced by asymmetric warfare and the concept of intelligence and preventive action interchangeably within U.S. borders and overseas. Opposing views contemplate that different-and presumably lower-legal standards may apply in internal armed conflicts. Such legal issues are visible under current circumstances of asymmetric warfare in conjunction with questions about prisoner status and detentions, including the permissible bounds of interrogation versus torture following the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq but also the treatment at the Guantanamo Bay facility of alleged Al Q'aeda captives from Afghanistan. All of the contributors in this book explore the changing circumstances against which these contentious new legal issues now unfold. The experts strike no consensus. Indeed, one of the work's many strengths can be attributed to the fact that the many facets of the ongoing debate are represented herein.

Author : Lyle J. Morris,Anika Binnendijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1977403093

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Gaining Competitive Advantage in the Gray Zone by Lyle J. Morris,Anika Binnendijk Pdf

The United States is entering a period of intensifying strategic competition with several rivals, most notably Russia and China. U.S. officials expect this competition to be played out primarily below the threshold of armed conflict, in what is sometimes termed the gray zone between peace and war. In this report, the authors examine how the United States might respond to Russian and Chinese efforts to seek strategic advantage through coercive actions in the gray zone, including military, diplomatic, informational, and economic tactics. The United States is ill prepared and poorly organized to compete in this space, yet the authors' findings suggest that the United States can begin to treat the ongoing gray zone competition as an opportunity more than a risk. Moreover, leaders in Europe and Asia view Russian and Chinese gray zone aggression as a meaningful threat and are receptive to U.S. assistance in mitigating it. In this report, the authors use insights from their extensive field research in affected countries, as well as general research into the literature on the gray zone phenomenon, to sketch out the elements of a strategic response to the gray zone challenge and develop a menu of response options for U.S. officials to consider.