Dolt maktutövande - En kvalitativ fallstudie om rysk hybridkrigföring
Sammanfattning: The contemporary western society stands for values of openness and trust. As the boundaries of war and peace gradually softens, these values become vulnerabilities which can be taken advantage of by foreign powers. Hybrid warfare is a method of war which resides in the gray zone between legality and illegality, war and peace. The following paper seeks to examine what this method of war truly is and how it is used by Russia in order to destabilize its counterparts and gain own political revenue. This paper answers those questions by implementing a qualitative case study on Russian hybrid acts of war. Initially hybrid warfare is studied and operationalized into four sub-dimensions: information warfare, political-economic warfare, irregular warfare, and regular warfare. Secondly Russian acts of war, defined as hybrid warfare, are analyzed from three different levels of security analysis: state level, society level and individual level. The result points out that when these means are used simultaneously one can negatively affect each one of the stately domains. Furthermore, when damage is caused in one domain it can also influence another, causing serious injury upon the security of the counterpart´s state. In combination to that these acts also commence in the hidden, hybrid warfare can seriously damage values that uphold the view of modern democracy.
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