Hybrid warfare / Timothy McCulloh and Richard Johnson.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

McCulloh, Timothy B., author.

Johnson, Richard B., author.

Contributor:

Joint Special Operations University (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

JSOU report ; 13-4.

JSOU report ; 13-4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hybrid warfare--Case studies.

Hybrid warfare.

Operational art (Military science).

Genre:

Online resources.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 137 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

MacDill Air Force Base, Florida : The JSOU Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Major McCulloh and Major Johnson wrote this monograph on hybrid warfare while they were students at the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Written in two parts, their individual approaches complement each other by providing a synergistic combination of both an overarching theory as well as an operational perspective. While the idea of hybrid warfare is not new, the authors together provide a clarity and utility which presents a relevant contextual narrative of the space between conventional conflicts and realm of irregular warfare. Major McCulloh's contribution in the first section lays the theoretical basis to bring a definition of hybrid warfare into focus while addressing the pertinent question of its historical origin. Major Johnson's section uses historical examples and case studies to form a basis for approaching hybrid threats through a lens of U.S. oriented operational art. The authors contribute to the understanding of warfare as a spectrum of conflict rather than a dichotomy of black and white alternatives.

Contents:

The inadequacy of definition and the utility of a theory of hybrid conflict : is the "hybrid threat" new? 1. Introduction

2. The Israel-Hezbollah War (2006) : a well-trod example revisited

3. World War II Eastern Front (1941-1945) : a first look at the Soviet partisan network as a hybrid organization

4. Validation of a theory

Operational approaches to hybrid warfare. 1. Introduction

2. The nature of hybrid warfare : built to last

3. The nature of operational art : built to outlast

4. The American experience in Vietnam : the bull and the toreador

5. Operation Iraqi Freedom : the school of piranhas

6. Synthesis : operational approaches to hybrid warfare.

Notes:

"August 2013."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource, PDF version; title from PDF title page (JSOU, viewed June, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: McCulloh, Timothy. Hybrid warfare

OCLC:

924283606