by Tod Lindberg
The U.S. of A. of America military machine has created a novel precedent for how to counter Russian “hybrid war.” Set inwards a murky clash of arms inwards Syrian Arab Republic inwards early on February, as well as 1 averted inwards March, this precedent—you mightiness fifty-fifty telephone telephone it a “red line”—will reflect from the Middle East to the Black as well as Baltic seas. The work is the appearance on your territory of what defense-policy wonks telephone telephone “little light-green men.” They come upward heavily armed as well as dressed for combat. They piece of work at the direction of a government, Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Yet they vesture no insignia, as well as their sponsors deny whatever command over them. Operating exterior the laws of war, they pursue Russian political ends such every bit the illegal takeover of Crimea as well as the dismemberment of Ukraine. Via a Russian mercenary paramilitary society called Wagner Group, they cause got turned upward to back upward Russian ends inwards Syrian Arab Republic every bit well.
Hybrid war, inwards the pop conception, encompasses all sorts of irregular conflict, from piffling light-green men to cyberdisruption to information operations. Its betoken is the pursuit of political ends yesteryear agency non readily traceable to their origin. It seeks conflict without accountability. It probes the inquiry of how much gain is possible brusk of regular military machine means. As such, it poses item challenges to deterrence as well as wartime accountability. These challenges are of specially dandy as well as increasing involvement inwards Europe’s east, from Republic of Finland as well as Sweden through the Baltics, Poland as well as Ukraine, on to the Balkans. What to do?
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