‘The Russians are Coming’
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2018

By the beginning of the 2010s, the concept of hybrid warfare had gained as much popularity as criticism. As an outcome of both, there were different attempts to interpret Hoffman’s ideas, the most methodological of which was published by NATO in 2012. NATO’s initial enthusiasm for the idea of hybridity was not shared by its member states, yet this changed with the Ukrainian crisis, which brought the idea back to the center of academic, military and political discourse. This chapter seeks to anal