Jezik: | Angleški jezik | Opis: | Malešič (2016, p. 81) states that Russia is currently considered the leading force in hybrid warfare, where it has overtaken the informally more developed West in the area of media and communications. In order to maintain this claim, it is the proof of the Russian operation of the Crimea annexation in 2014, which was carried out with the amazing speed and playfulness of various soft and hard instruments of national power, while simultaneously using the power of local people's protests. The international community responded to this either very badly or inadequately. Brutality and simultaneous surgical precision of the operation make it feel as though each of the instruments of national power played its precisely defined role, which also had its basis in the national security and defense documents, such as national security strategy and military doctrine. The latter is a kind of proof of the adaptation of the Russian military and political strategic framework to the new global challenges of the modern world. Earlier and convincingly Soviet oriented Russia accustomed of using the primary brutal military power, in this case it proved capable of using a dynamic and highly adaptive force of various national power tools, with the appropriate support of a rather altered, but extremely powerful, military instrument of power. In doing so, it actually shocked the western professional and political public and opened wide debate among the professional circles, which did not impute the ability of this type of activity. Hybrid warfare has become a constant in the military and political circles of the West, as well as the search for solutions to effectively counter the new threat presented in Crimea by the Russian side. | Ključne besede: | hybrid warfare, national strategy, military doctrine, Crimea |
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