In this Level Talk programme, two men who occupy completely different ends of the political spectrum argue about hybrid warfare. Discussion on a theoretical level soon gives way to excited polemics, providing an illustrated example of the raw and sometimes simplistic arguments used in information warfare.
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By John Harrison: Participants in this discussion are Andre Vltchek, a geopolitical analyst, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist, and Dr. James Corum, a retired lieutenant colonel in the 1st US Army who served in Iraq, an air power historian and a scholar of counter-insurgency.
According to Dr Corum, hybrid warfare is not anything new:
According to Dr Corum, hybrid warfare is not anything new:
“…the American Revolution included economic warfare, diplomacy, propaganda campaigns, all the things we are talking about….so I am always cautious about buzzwords that come along as if they are something new. The Cold War was what you could say hybrid, with proxy wars, propaganda. As to whether the US is doing this or not, I wish we were getting better at it….The one thing that has changed in the last century is communications, which are now happening instantaneously, that is new.”