Russian Hybrid and Information Warfare: Moscow’s Strategy and the Russian Asymmetric Challenge to the World (Routledge Research in Strategic Studies)

This book examines the evolution of Russian hybrid warfare in the post-Soviet era through a long-term, historically grounded, and systematically integrated perspective. Contemporary strategic studies literature often portrays hybrid warfare as an innovative approach to conflict.However, this volume demonstrates that Russia’s hybrid approach is neither new nor improvised, but the product of a strategic culture shaped across imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet history.The book combines doctrinal analysis, close reading of primary strategic texts, and a comparative study of the major conflicts fought by the Russian Federation since 1991.Drawing on the writings of Russian and Soviet military thinkers, party-state documents and open-source military sources, the research reconstructs how non-military and non-conventional instruments gradually shifted from ad hoc wartime expedients to components of an increasingly coordinated strategic repertoire.The various case studies adopt a cross-case comp