‘Hybrid warfare’ as an academic fashion

Analysing Revitalised Security Industry: The Tech-Powered Transformation for Small States

“…This implies that growing state-of-art technological capabilities are accessible in the global market to conventional foes which help them to adopt non-conventional means and overcome superior military powers disturbing military balance (Libiseller, 2023). The revitalised tech-powered security industries are facing a dilemma as the accumulation and modernisation of weapons since the Cold War have been used as strategic balance, but presently, due to geopolitical shifts, these have led to an out-of-balance situation (Libiseller, 2023). The changing rules of war have induced security concerns for the countries increasing asymmetric threats (Caron, 2019).…”

“…The politicalsecurity impact of the revitalised security industry can more clearly be understood through Clausewitz's idea of war's 'grammar' (potential progresses in military science) and policy 'logic' (official incentives to fight) 4 (Dimitriu, 2018, p. 647). Today, state finance and policy support are requisite to defense research (Libiseller, 2023). Although the state has monopolised the use of force the production has been shifted from the public to private sector and this will continue in the future (Chin, 2019).…”

“…The rapid growth of security economics is no doubt powered by technological progress, but many factors have played a role in it. From petty crimes to terrorism, the procurement of security equipment by an individual to the state has increased economic aspect (Libiseller, 2023). There has been a significant increase in identification and surveillance technologies which has made them the backbone of security economics (Wezeman, et al, 2020).…”

“…One does not have to cite the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today, the Russia-Ukraine crisis and recent Israel's retaliation against Hama's activities in the Gaza Strip have cleared clouds for anyone who was confused about the impact of technologies in warfare. The use of drones, loitering munitions, armoured vehicles, and other artificial intelligence devices have made the new kind of warfare more unique and dangerous (Libiseller, 2023). This possibility of unthinkable in the technology turning into reality, as Mary Ellen O'Connell (2019) argued, a need for a radical shift in how we think about weapons.…”

Frozen Conflicts as a Tool of the Russian Hybrid Warfare in the Post-Soviet Space

“…Therefore, in the West, most analysts believe that the debate on this concept gained momentum with the actions of the Russian Federation leading to the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and events in eastern Ukraine in 2014 (Monaghan, 2015;Renz, 2016;Wither, 2020;Pynnöniemi & Jokela, 2020;Libiseller, 2023). However, the first definitions of the concept do not revolve around that date.…”