Russia’s Weapon of Words in Numbers. Evolution of Russian Assertive(Dis)Information Actions: Comparative Analysis of the Cases of RussoGeorgian War 2008 &amp; Annexation of Crimea 2014 .
Journal: Ante portas - studia nad bezpieczeństwem
Year: 2020

Russian assertive actions over the last decade have led some observers to think that the Kremlin is employing fundamentally new concepts of an armed conflict. Subsequently, the scholars of the field came up with several buzzwords and ill-defined concepts such as ‘hybrid warfare’ and ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’. This paper claims that the novelty of Russian actions is not in terms of its military transformations per se, but rather the specific way the military had been integrated with other instruments—