Operations
Innovation and Technology in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Gaming Intermediate Force Capabilities: Strategic Implications of Tactical Decisions
Introduction
Hybrid Threats
In recent years, analysis of the international security environment has increasingly focused on hybrid threat tactics in the grey zone.
How to Assess the Impact of Non-Lethal Weapons
Introduction
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) represent a diverse set of systems whose common feature is that they are intended to incapacitate rather than kill or destroy. For example, they include laser dazzlers that cause targets to experience intense glare, the Active Denial System (ADS) that emits millimeter-wave energy to cause a temporary heating sensation, pepper balls that irritate eyes and airways, blunt-impact munitions such as rubber bullets and bean bags, and vessel-stopping technologies that entangle propellers.
Technology as a Resilience Factor in Peace Operations
Introduction
UN peacekeeping can evolve to become a learning enterprise that seeks out and applies new technologies and innovations on a continuous basis, thereby enabling it to be better prepared for the future.[1]
Stabilization Missions – Lessons to Be Learned from Resilience-Based Peacebuilding
Introduction
Liberal peacebuilding was the predominant concept for peace missions after the fall of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the bipolar world system. Over time, the high costs associated with liberal peace missions and the rise of violent extremism and state sponsors of terrorism have led to rethinking the ends and means of intervention in fragile or conflict-affected states. Stabilization missions became the new paradigm for interventions, with a strong if not exclusive focus on security.
Cognitive Attacks in Russian Hybrid Warfare
Policy and Legal Frameworks of Using Armed Forces for Domestic Disaster Response and Relief
NATO Intelligence and Information Sharing: Improving NATO Strategy for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
A Changing Security Paradigm. New Roles for New Actors – The Russian Approach
Introduction
In 2014, the Russian Federation conducted two separate phases of operations in Ukraine. Despite substantial differences in the objectives of and methods used within the operations, it is worth noting that their natures have much in common. Both operations were planned and conducted in accordance with the doctrine followed by Gerasimov and on the basis of the concept hybrid warfare.
Beyond Propaganda: Soviet Active Measures in Putin’s Russia
Preface: An Awakening
The neatest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.
— Charles Baudelaire, 1869 [1]