Russia's hybrid war against the West

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

War has changed in the 21st century and combat is not always kinetic. Russia’s battlefields are the internet, financial markets and television airwaves. The goal is not necessarily to take and hold territory but to expand Russia’s sphere of influence and achieve political goals. This is hybrid warfare, or gibridnaya voina, the much hyped and discussed way of war. But, as intelligence expert Mark Galeotti tells us on this week’s War College, Moscow’s conception of hybrid war isn’t new - it’s a reaction to and an Eastern adaptation of American military strategy during the Cold War. The goal is simple - expand Russian soft power to make the world more agreeable to the Kremlin’s point of view. Galeotti explains how hybrid war is fought, and how to best combat it in this week’s episode. By Matthew Gault Produced and edited by Bethel Habte

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0:20.0	The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. They're trying to not create but destroy. They're not trying to create allies.
0:27.0	They're trying to destroy the integrity of the Western system. them. you to tweet us suggestions for show topics and today we're covering one.
0:44.3	Host Matthew Galt track down Mark Galliotti to discuss hybrid warfare.
0:48.5	What it is, how Russia's engaging in it, against the West, and how best to fight back.
0:54.0	You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict,
1:01.0	focusing on the stories behind the front lines. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Gault. With us today is one of our
1:16.8	favorite guests, Mark Gollyotti. Gollyotti is an expert on Russia and Russian
1:21.0	Crime, the author of many fine books about the Russian military and a senior
1:24.4	research fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. His newest book is
1:29.6	Hybrid War, getting Russia's non-linear military challenge right. Mark, thank you so much for joining us.
1:36.0	Always a pleasure. All right, so I just want to hop into this with what I think is the question on some people's minds,
1:42.0	and that is, is the question on some people's minds and that is is the West currently at
1:46.0	war with Russia? Well the answer is yes it is and unfortunately that sounds like a
1:50.5	very sort of hawkish proposition but the reason I say that is because, frankly, everyone I speak to in Russia says so.
1:59.4	And when I say everyone, I mean I'm talking about people within the military foreign policy
2:03.4	national security sort of worlds as far as they're concerned they're at war with the
2:08.3	West and it's a war that the West started and whether or not we accept their premise doesn't really matter.
2:15.2	It only takes one person to actually, or one side rather, to think they're at war.
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