Hybrid Warfare, Grey Zone Conflicts, and the Battle of Narratives: Discourse as a Strategic Weapon
Journal: Social Prism
Year: 2025

This paper explores the changing nature of warfare in the current environment, which has brought into focus the nature of hybrid warfare and the grey zone of military conflict, including the central role that discourse and narrative play as strategic weapons. Conventional war has changed, state and non-state adversaries are employing Information operations, influence warfare and media control to achieve strategic end states without the use of force of arms. This investigation is based on a quali