{"id":1621,"date":"2018-05-14T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackopspartners.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2018-05-14T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:29:24","slug":"hybrid-coe-addressing-hybrid-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/hybrid-coe-addressing-hybrid-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid COE: Addressing Hybrid Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 11\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Russian \u201clittle green men\u201d in Ukraine; Russian hacks into the email server of theU.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC); protest and counter-protest over a mosque in Houston, with both sides fake and organized by Russian trolls: theseare hybrid threats in the 21st century. Most of them are not strikingly new. The exception is the virtual or digital realm, which empowers new tools and lowers the entry cost of using them \u2013 think of web posts by comparison to planting articles in traditional newspapers. The goal of hybrid threats is to achieve out-comes without actual war, and this report focuses on tools short of actual combat.The target is opposing societies, not combatants. Thus, the distinction between combatants and citizens, blurring for decades, breaks down almost entirely. And the tactic is the simultaneous employment of the range of possible instruments, from threats of war to propaganda and everything in between.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c7962d;\"><em><a style=\"color: #c7962d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hybridcoe.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Treverton-AddressingHybridThreats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read the full report here.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid threats have become the 21st security challenge for Western countries. They reflect significant change in the nature of international security. Change tends to increase feelings of insecurity and, historically, frictions in society, all the more so because hybrid threats are complex and ambiguous. Some people look to the past for answers, while others have forgotten the past. There are those who argue more vigorously for adapting to change, and there are those who try to defend the status quo. In some cases facts turn into views, opinions and perspectives \u2013 or worse, vice versa. This means that the picture of the security environment is not simply black or white. It is complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional. Thus, analysis of what has changed, how it is changed and what does it mean for democratic states is at the core of understanding the nature of the current security environment in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}