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Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia’s ‘new way of war’?

Galeotti, Mark·2016·Small Wars & Insurgencies
DOI 10.1080/09592318.2015.1129170
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Russia’s recent operations in Ukraine, especially the integrated use of militias, gangsters, information operations, intelligence, and special forces, have created a concern in the West about a ‘new way of war’, sometimes described as ‘hybrid’. However, not only are many of the tactics used familiar from Western operations, they also have their roots in Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian practice. They are distinctive in terms of the degree to which they are willing to give primacy to ‘non-kinetic’ means, the scale of integration of non-state actors, and tight linkage between political and military command structures. However, this is all largely a question of degree rather than true qualitative novelty. Instead, what is new is the contemporary political, military, technological, and social context in which new wars are being fought.

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  • The idea that Russia demonstrated an innovative war-winning approach in Crimea overstates the 'newness' of hybridity in warfare.

    “The idea that Russia demonstrated an innovative war-winning approach in Crimea not only overstates the 'newness' of hybridity in warfare, as has already been discussed at length by a number of analysts critical of the concept (Galeotti 2016, Giles 2016, Popescu 2015).”

    From Russia and ‘hybrid warfare’ (2016) · cites this paper as Galeotti 2016

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Authors
Galeotti, M.
Affiliations
New York University (US)
Corresponding author
Galeotti, Mark
ORCID
Galeotti, Mark
Venue
Small Wars & Insurgencies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2016-03-03
Volume
27
Issue
2
Pages
282-301
ISSN
  • 0959-2318 (ISSN-L)
  • 1743-9558
DOI
10.1080/09592318.2015.1129170
OpenAlex
W2304605013
Semantic Scholar
7574feb072a921b17eb275017ee7f3277b8b65d3
Cited by
179
References
28
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2
FWCI
43.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Small Wars and Insurgencies (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Military History and Strategy
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Military Strategy and Technology
Keywords
hybrid warfare, non-kinetic warfare, non-state actors, militia, gangsters, information operations, intelligence, special forces

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