Hybrid Warfare and Societal Resilience: Implications for Democratic Governance
Journal: Information & Security An International Journal
Year: 2018

This article examines the changing nature of warfare and the implications for democratic governance. The first section describes "hybrid warfare"the central concept used by NATO to characterize modern war. It looks at the evolution of the concept, how it is defined, and some disputes over its ability to accurately capture the essence of modern war. In NATO, the concept of "hybrid warfare" is used to analyze and characterize Russian actions in Ukraine and Crimea; however, the Russian military thi