Understanding the Hybrid Warfare of Russia

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Russian hybrid warfare.
Hybrid warfare is a type of warfare that involves the deployment of irregular military forces coupled with political, cyber, and psychologic cyber unrests. For Russian hybrid warfare, this is a calculated and tactical use of conventional and non -conventional military attacks to the Western states and aims to influence the ground changes while evading direct military attacks from Western countries. Russia lacks a lot of sophisticated weapons that most western countries possess; therefore, it avoids confrontation from the western countries by mainly introducing chaos which is the main component of hybrid warfare (Chivvis 31). According to the CEPA report, Russia was found using the “chaos strategy” approach in its nonlinear competition. The chaos strategy helps the relatively weak Russian government by helping the country avoid direct fights with the West and still compete effectively by dividing its opponent&rsq...