events in Crimea was so clumsy and deserves examination. Since the Annexation of the Crimea there is an increasing interest in hybrid warfare. Firstly, the events in Crimea illustrated how a nuclear-enabled re-emerging superpower chose nonstate actors, reinforced - by state-based capabilities, to secure physical territory instead of employing traditional conventional warfare techniques. Hybrid warfare is employed in a tailored way to sow chaos in target countries. Such efforts generally include irregular warfare, active measures, and special operations. "In occupied Crimea, a serviceman of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Maxim Churilov, who is doing military service in the 1096th Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment in the city of Sevastopol, was in intensive care after being vaccinated against COVID-19." In reality, the Crimean campaign, like all Hybrid Warfare, required specific conditions for its success and great preparation to guarantee its effectiveness. October 1, 2019 Topic: Security Region: Europe. Firstly, the events in Crimea illustrated how a nuclear-enabled re-emerging superpower chose non-state actors, reinforced by state-based capabilities, to secure Prior to the annexation of Crimea, vast deposits of shale oil and gas were discovered in the Black Sea basin off the Crimean shelf, in the Eastern Ukraine’s Yuzivska shale block (Donbas), and Western Ukraine’s Olesska shale block. A hybrid adversary will use a combination of conventional and guerrilla tactics - This includes leveraging conventional state craft like conventional combat doctrines, diplomacy and tactics, while also leveraging force multiplying techniques including guerrilla warfare, acts of terror, indiscriminate violence and organised criminal activity. Hybrid warfare emphasizes the importance of informational operations and the weaponization of information over conventional military strategy in new Russian military doctrine. Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: Russia History Military History Hybrid Warfare Crimea Russia's Hybrid Warfare: Not So New After-all? hybrid warfare. by Charlie Gao Indeed, there are two key reasons why the West cannot ignore Russian hybrid warfare. A major component of the Russian approach involves the extensive use of influence operation via propaganda, disinformation, and the media. Allegedly employed by Russia against the Crimea in 2014, Hybrid War was intended to resemble a grassroots response by an ethnic Russian minority oppressed by the Ukrainian government. This exposes a vulnerability of hybrid warfare — it requires local escalation-dominance, a condition Russia established against the odds in places like Crimea and Syria by exploiting Western fears of direct military confrontation. Russia has perfected the concept of ‘Hybrid Warfare’ best seen in its move into Ukraine and Crimea in 2014. Since 2014 Russian media efforts in the former Soviet republics in the Baltics, have become more subtle. Secondly, the threat of Russian hybrid warfare … The first complete development of the “hybrid warfare” theory by Russia – which, anyway, invented it – can be found in an article by General Gerasimov, the Russian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff of the time, in an essay published in the weekly magazine Corriere Military-Industrial Courier in February 2013. Crimea operation that with the ‘hybrid warfare’ approach used there, Russia had found a ‘new art of war’ 2 that made up for shortcomings in its conventional capabilities and, if repeated, could pose a The high-ranking officer of […] Lithuania is a case 3 Unable to compete in direct confrontation, the Kremlin’s use of hybrid warfare is a means to compensate for its weaknesses vis-à-vis the United States and NATO.