Societal Resilience, A Key Factor in Combating Hybrid Threats

Abstract

February 24, 2022 has changed the course of recent history, proving the greatest fears of Western states concerning the intentions of the Russian Federation regarding Ukraine and Europe. Hybrid warfare instruments used in Ukraine over the past decade have led to the destabilization of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, culminating in the invasion of a sovereign state and the outbreak of armed conflict. We are currently witnessing an absurd theater of contradictory news, a struggle for resources and state decisions taken in accordance with their concern for their own economy, cyber-attacks and revelations of a sensational sometimes with macabre overtones. The diversity and complexity of the hybrid threats so evident in today’s society, used as a military strategy prior to the armed conflict but especially since its inception, influences our perception and increases the effects of conventional warfare.