Opis: The current focus on hybrid threats and asymmetric warfare can seem little more than a return to the past. How far into the past should we go to recognize this truth? Many doctrines and theories from the Industrial Age are not valid today. We need to move closer to the algorithm as a guide to action rather than remaining stuck using a static paradigm. Joint Civil-Military Interaction is one option offering an open security code, combining experts and expertise on demand and on time. We must unite our efforts, and improve international mechanisms of crisis management to respond faster, more accurately, and more efficiently. Geography no longer provides security. In a crisis, it does not matter from which direction the threat comes. We are all in the same boat or on Spaceship Earth.
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Ključne besede: asymmetric warfare, military doctrines, hybrid threats, civil-military interaction, resilience, solidarity, end state, way of thinking
Objavljeno: 06.10.2020; Ogledov: 7785; Prenosov: 16
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Opis: This article engages linkages between institutional weakness, corruption, and criminality in the Americas, with a focus on an increasing dependence on military actors for everyday governance. It provides lessons learned from the Latin America region on how, in a time of upheaval, many things are being weaponized and militarized (hybrid warfare) to provide security. It examines the concept of ‘multidimensional security’, coined by the Organization of American States (OAS) just over twenty years ago, against a backdrop of significant regional violence and institutional weaknesses. It identifies issues with the norm of civilian control of armed forces – a healthy byproduct of democratization in the post-Cold War era – which has catalysed a largely unforeseen governance risk: political leaders’ temptation to leverage military capacities to score quick ‘wins’ often come at the cost of other state sectors’ maturation, the politicization of armed forces, and potentially even citizen confidence in democratic ideals. The article concludes with a series of recommendations an lessons learned on Latin America’s multidimensional security concept for European nations, particular smaller states, on how to deal with contemporary hybrid threats.
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Ključne besede: hibrid threats, hibrid warfare, multidimensional security
Objavljeno: 22.06.2026; Ogledov: 357; Prenosov: 2
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