Hybrid warfare

It stands to reason that the likelihood of being involved in certain types of campaigns, and the frequency of involvement, and the FD implications will be different for the US military and the CAF. [...] This is primarily due to the fact that, as will be shown below, there is no consistent usage of either hybrid threats or warfare in the literature pointing to the immaturity of the discussion.3 Furthermore, it is not the intent of this paper to delve into the tautological and, at times teleological debates on definitions and descriptions of the topic.4 This is, in the end, less valuable for CAF FD [...] DRDC-RDDC-2014-R43 5 3 The characteristics of hybrid warfare The previous section provided an overview of the origins of the hybrid warfare debate and the manner in which DND / CAF documents raise the issue. [...] The HWC paper argues that hybrid conflicts are likely to occur in failed or failing states, and implies that intervention in such conflicts is necessary in order to prevent the spread of instability and to ensure that that instability does not negatively affect international trade.34 In essence, the justification for the inclusion of a hybrid warfare scenario is that the hypothetical war has the p [...] The absence of a comprehensive concept of the relations between diplomatic objectives and a military operation apparently contributed to the fact that harmonization was often lacking between the standpoints of various individuals and agencies regarding specific points which they did not connect to a more overall picture of the military operation and the relationship between it and diplomatic objec