Hybrid Threats and Strategic Competition
Journal: Connections The Quarterly Journal
Year: 2024

Strategic competition is not new, nor is the use of activities short of warfare by governments to shape the international system in their favor.However, the ability of state and non-state actors to directly influence populations through a range of rapid and non-attributable actions is different from previous iterations of strategic competition.These activities, referred to in this article as hybrid threats, directly challenge state sovereignty and represent the key distinguishing feature of cont