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Zusatztext Hybrid Warfare is one of the most misunderstood concepts in modern security studies, this volume goes a long way towards clearing up the confusion by providing a viable path towards understanding the evolution of warfare. Western nations will face the challenge of hybrid threats well into the future because of the opportunity new methods of political warfare offer, the "blizzard" is coming for us all. Informationen zum Autor Mikael Weissmann is an Associate Professor and the Head of Research and Deputy Head of the Land Operations Section at the Swedish Defence University. He is a member of CSCAP-EU and co-convenor of the the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG) and the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG). He has held positions at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Copenhagen-, Uppsala- and Stockholm University and has been a Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) (Singapore), University of Warwick (UK) and Peking-, Renmin-, and China Foreign Affairs University (China). Weissmann received his PhD in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg (2009) and he is a docent in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (2016). He also holds a M.Soc.Sci. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University (2003), and a BA in International Relations and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia (2000). Niklas Nilsson is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, where he is also a co-convenor of the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG) and the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG). Nilsson is a Research Fellow with the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute and the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He has previously held research and teaching positions at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, including as research coordinator for the Swedish Network of European Studies, and at Södertörn University. Nilsson has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at George Washington University and a Visiting Fellow at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) and Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He received his PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University (2015) and holds an MA in Political Science from Lund University (2006). Björn Palmertz is a senior analyst focusing on strategic communication and influence operations at the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS), Swedish Defence University. He has previously served as a military officer in the Swedish Armed Forces including a deployment to Afghanistan. In addition, he has worked in the private sector as a marketing and advertising manager as well as in development functions at media companies such as Dreamworks SKG and Turner Broadcasting. He holds the rank of Major in the reserve of the Swedish Amphibious Corps, has an MSc in Political Science from the Swedish Defence University and a BA in Communication Studies from UCLA. Per Thunholm is a Senior Associate for the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) at the Swedish Defence University. Prior to the Swedish Defence University, he held the position as the Deputy Director of the Department for Intelligence Coordination at the Swedish Ministry of Defence. Furthermore, Thunholm has more than 20 years’ experience of various agencies in the Swedish Intelligence Community. Although the majority of his career has been with the Intelligence Community, Thunholm also has experience from working as a desk officer at the Department of Security, Policy and International Relations with the Ministry of Defence. Klappentext This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hybrid Warfare refers to a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, so-called 'irregular warfare'...
