Review of RUSSIAN ‘HYBRID WARFARE’ AND THE ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA: THE MODERN APPLICATION OF SOVIET POLITICAL WARFARE
Journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Year: 2023

This book is an invaluable source for understanding the strategies employed in the Soviet Union’s successful invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1979, as well as the Russians’ annexation of Crimea in 2014. Although this work was written before the current war in Ukraine, it provides an excellent starting point for any analysis of Russian strategy in the current conflict. Understanding what factors made the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation successful in previous conflict