CHAPTER 8 Putin’s Miscalculation : The Effectiveness of Russia’s New-type Warfare in Ukraine
Journal: Leiden University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

This chapter focuses on whether Russian authorities used new-type warfare prior to and during the invasion of Ukraine.First publicly announced in 2015, this concept is the practical implementation of the Russian doctrinal concept of strategic deterrence.New-type warfare assumes that an opponent is initially disrupted by non-military means; should that not be enough to take over a country then it scales up to classical methods of warfare with military means.In the period leading up to the physica