Hybrid war against Russia - this term appeared in the everyday life of the citizens of our country a decade ago. He has been known to professionals since the 90s. Occurring events on the world stage, the Western media called the Putin’s hybrid war against Ukraine. Is this really the case?
What is the essence of a hybrid war?
The logical outcome of the confrontation of states (blocs, coalitions) is victory. Modern technologies have provided an opportunity to defeat without millions of victims on the battlefield. The participation of the armed forces is part of the overall strategy:
- Undermine the economy of the state. Methods: sanctions, embargo, maneuvering at world prices of strategic raw materials and currency;
- Reduce the spirit of the population and the armed forces. Methods: the collapse of the internal and external markets, the initiation of a jump in inflation, unemployment growth, terrorist acts, terrifying measures, and so on;
- Blocking the views of the world community through the media. Monopolization of international information resources, the provision of distorted data, deliberate silence of facts, simulation of non-existent events;
- The depletion of monetary resources, the collapse of the state budget. The method is to be drawn into a military conflict, entailing material costs;
- Undermining the credibility of the current government. Manipulations of public consciousness, support of the radical opposition, the initiation of insurrections, "color revolutions", protests;
- Other economic, informational, sociological and political components.
What is NATO's hybrid war on the battlefield?
NATO hybrid wars made changes to the classic understanding of the fighting. Tactics takes on new forms, the distinctive features of which are:
- military operations take place on the territory of other states that are not direct participants in the confrontation;
- in the civil war, units formed of civilians (volunteer units, extremist armed formations, human shields of unmilitary persons, etc.) participate;
- co-operation monitoring by NATO consultants;
- the provision of weapons, supplies, uniforms, ammunition, equipment.
The Theory of the United States and NATO Hybrid Wars at the Domestic Political Level
One can gain control over the state that serves as a springboard for further actions, if one neutralizes the current government, which is loyal to the adversary state. Instead, you need to put the government, which will implicitly carry out orders even to the detriment of their own country.
This means that the hybrid war strategy allows for:
- impeachment of the president;
- armed coup;
- the overthrow of power by the uprising;
- liquidation of the first head of the country and those holding key positions;
- recruitment of opposition leaders;
- bribing parliamentarians and deputies;
- material support for radical forces;
- other violent and non-violent ways to dismiss the president and the government.
Hybrid war - conspiracy between states against one country. This fact means that the participants are not only the United States, but all those who are included in the NATO bloc.
Foreign policy side of the hybrid war against Russia
The reasons for Ukrainian destabilization lie in the reluctance of V.F. Yanukovych to become part of the alliance. Awareness of the benefits of cooperation with Russia, understanding the importance of strategic partnership, the desire to return loans to the international monetary fund. These factors served as a catalyst for the outbreak of conflict.
This does not mean that the war could not have happened. The behavior of the United States and Western partners suggested that world opposition was inevitable. It got started in the last decades of the twentieth century. Hybrid war on the territory of Ukraine - another round.
Place battles in hybrid wars
The definition of mixed war (hybrid) does not imply a specific territorial attribute. The modern world economy assumes close ties of states that do not border each other. Location on different continents is also not decisive.
The place of action can be any state that is in the orbit of the interests of the Russian Federation. By causing a revolutionary conflict, a coup, a civil war, or by sponsoring a terrorist group, the United States can force the Russian Federation to participate in solving the problem. This fact means material costs, the ability to set what is happening as an invasion, seizure, establishment of a regime or annexation.
Modern technology involves the conduct of hybrid wars in cyber space. Blocking Internet information sources, attacks on control and management systems for strategic military and civilian targets. Restrictions on the exchange of technology and development. These factors are leverage against Russia.
World exchanges. Here fights are fierce as well. Lower prices for strategic raw materials provoke a fall in the national currency. We will not list all the ways to influence the economy of the state. Suffice it to say, the defense capability of countries directly depends on the world market (raw materials, currency, production).
The signing of treaties on interstate cooperation, the inclination of states to their side with promises, loans, deception, and bribing of key officials are methods of reducing the influence of the enemy on the world stage and ways of initiating a fall in the domestic economy.
The place where hybrid wars are fought is the entire globe and near-Earth space (the battle for supremacy within orbit). Sphere of influence - any activity of human civilization. At the moment, the Russian Federation is taking a punch and is able to respond to it without violating international ethical norms.
