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Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia’s ‘new way of war’?
Abstract
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 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).”
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Metadata
- 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
- 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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