WSPÓŁCZESNE ROZUMIENIE WOJEN ZASTĘPCZYCH
MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF PROXY WARS

Summary/Abstract: Advances in the field of military action strategy create the need to reexamine the definition of proxy war. Contemporary researchers are attempting to systematize knowledge on the subject, including those related to the development of a definition of proxy war that corresponds to the contemporary realities of military action. However, there is no consensus among researchers on what characterizes it. It is often equated with indirect action, political intervention, or hybrid warfare. This article aims to organize this knowledge. The subject of the research is the definition of proxy war in the context of its understanding in contemporary scientific discourse. The main problem, determining the research conducted, is to answer the question: what is the contemporary understanding of proxy wars? In order to solve the above research problem, the author undertook an analysis of the existing definitions, focusing on the elements that characterize them, such as: the objectives of using proxy war strategies, the elements determining its occurrence, or the number of parties determining the occurrence of this type of conflict. Due to the existence of many definitions of proxy war, related to each other in content, it was necessary to make a selection, the main criterion of which was the impact of these definitions on the scientific discourse.

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