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THEORY-1207: Russian military writers of 2015–2020 use 'hybrid war' for a category of war marked off by its objective, reshaping a target state's governance, geostrategic orientation and worldview, in which every action up to conventional military force is subordinate to an information campaign, and not, as in Western usage, for a set of means below the threshold of armed conflict

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StatusProposed
Tagssociety-and-governance
SourceLIT-023 — Russian Hybrid Warfare
ExtendsTHEORY-488 — Clark (2020), synthesising open writing by Russian military authors of 2015 to 2020, chiefly Chekinov and Bogdanov, Bartosh and Kiselev, with no stated rule for choosing sources, reports that they use "hybrid war" for a category of war marked off by its objective, reshaping a target state's governance, geostrategic orientation and worldview, in which every action up to conventional military force is subordinate to an information campaign, and not, as he says Western usage does, for a set of means below the threshold of armed conflict

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Source

LIT-023, read in full in NOTE-012. What the source measured is THEORY-488, which this entry extends.

The claim

Clark argues that Russian military writing of the period, as an institution and not a handful of authors, treats hybrid war as a type of war defined by its objective, with conventional force inside it and subordinate to an information campaign.

What would settle it

The promote_when, carried word for word from THEORY-488 when that entry was narrowed. More readings of the same source cannot settle it.

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