ХИБРИДНИ РАТ – ПОСЛЕДИЦА ХЛАДНОГ РАТА
HYBRID WAR - A CONSEQUENCE THE COLD WAR

Author(s): Davor M. Milošević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Military policy, Cold-War History, Hybrid Warfare
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: hybrid conflict; Cold War; unarmed struggle
Summary/Abstract: With the era of globalization and accelerated technological advancement, an increasing number of previously non-traditional conflicts have entered the scene. Hence, war chronology clearly indicates that contemporary war conflicts, during and after the Cold War, have changed in relation to those that preceded them, in which the massive use of conventional weapons dominated. The inevitable characteristic of contemporary conflicts is reflected in the projection of minimizing and marginalizing armed in proportion to non-armed means, in which a traditional armed component appears only as an ultimate necessity, unless all other methods do not provide success, apropos they do not achieve satisfactory results and do not ensure the planned interest. The minimized role of armed conflict within new concepts is concerned with the issue of an adequate approach to researching the phenomenon of contemporary war as a prerequisite and foundation and development of all other doctrines and strategies. By analyzing the previous experiences and considering the different theoretical approaches to the concept of "hybrid warfare", the paper concludes that it is not possible to determine whether it is a new "cold" war, or the old one was actually just an introduction to the new one. In any case, it is evident that the new continuation is old and that the 20th century was a century of world wars, and that the 21st century will be the century of hybrid wars.

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