ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ОСОБЛИВОСТЕЙ СУЧАСНИХ ГІБРИДНИХ ВІЙН

Abstract

An important issue today has become a comprehensive study of the specifics of the development and implementation of modern hybrid warriors. The work is devoted to the current topic of modern military science – hybrid wars. Based on the analysis of various types of wars, a hybrid war is defined as a war with a complex character, with a wide range of various methods of action, including a fierce confrontation of diplomats, information warfare, ideological struggle, the application of economic and political pressure on the enemy, exceptional activity of special services and actual military actions. In the theoretical works of military specialists, experts, analysts, and scientists in recent years, the topic of hybrid wars and hybrid threats has been occupying more and more space of scientific discussion. At the same time, the palette of definitions, description of signs on the examples of military conflicts and modern wars is so colorful that the understanding of the very essence and content is blurred. Military thought is developing, but there should be no room for interchange of concepts and confusion of categories. War, if considered from the point of view of historical development, becomes more complicated, is conducted in an increasingly wide range of actions – traditional and unusual, direct and indirect (non-linear), combat and “non-military”, becomes more and more complex and integral, as well as – high-tech, information , regular and irregular. Asymmetric wars, alternative wars, unconventional wars, hybrid wars and other definitions are introduced into scientific and theoretical circulation. No matter what definitions are given, the fact that it is war remains unchanged. War of armies, war of peoples and war of different factions fighting for power, existence, influence, resources, territory, etc. Therefore, the essence and content must be defined as categories of war, but war that differs in its real features. The military doctrine of Ukraine considers wars as conflicts depending on the intensity and potential of the confronting states or group of states.