Hybrid Warfare And The Preparedness Of India

Abstract

Hybrid warfare is the amalgamation of conventional and irregular strategies in conflicts that present and future enemies are expected to utilize in warfare. It favours indirect and asymmetric strategies to diminish an adversary's strength, influence, and resolve. Defence analysts have recognized hybrid conflict as a phenomenon that will increasingly define and test the intelligence system in the future.  Hybrid warfare encompasses the entire spectrum of conflict by integrating the intensity and lethality of conventional warfare with the zeal of irregular warfare, alongside technological advancements in cyber and Information Warfare (IW). It also involves perpetrating acts of criminality, legal infractions, and public unrest in the target nation during peacetime. Hybrid Warfare is hybrid not only in its powers and consequences but also in its theory and reasoning.