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CSS Essay On Hybrid Warfare, Fifth Generation Warfare PDF
CSS Essay On Hybrid Warfare, Fifth Generation Warfare PDF
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Warfare
In the modern parlance of military configuration, the much-hyped mantra of the Hybrid
Warfare or the Fifth Generation Warfare is one of the most complexes, vague and
threateningly overlapping component of war. In the post-WW II scenario, the US has
developed world-class military might, sophisticated society, and exponentially booming
economic prowess. This, with the grim progression of events, paved the way for countering
the global US hegemonic status through asymmetric, unconventional warfare strategies. As
a result, the invasive, lethal form of hybrid warfare gained momentum.
“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention
of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man
who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.” Ibraham
Lincoln
A. Literal meaning
1. Combination of two or more distinct elements
B. In the parlance of modern military warfare
1. deliberately designed to remain below the threshold of conventional military conflict and
open interstate war
2. Achieve those gains without escalating to overt warfare
3. Without crossing established red-lines
4. Without exposing the practitioner to the penalties and risks that such escalation might
bring
5. The province of revisionist powers—those actors that seek to modify some aspect of the
existing international environment—and the goal is to reap gains, whether territorial or
otherwise
6. Unlike traditional warfare, grey-zone strategies will not produce decisive results within a
defined time frame
A. The most capable armed forces in the world spending more than the next nine nations
combined
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III. The changing character and the taxonomy of conflict. Why more conflicts are
being fought at the lower end of the conflict spectrum.
A. Globalization
B. Mass access to technology and communications
C. Asymmetric reactions to U.S. tactics in Afghanistan and Iraq
A. H.R. McMaster, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, once observed: “There are two
ways to fight the United States: asymmetrically and stupid”.
B. The emerging powers do threaten critical U.S. interests through “strategic disruption”
,means the use of asymmetric methods.
A. The use of state of the art weapons by the US equally impressed by the precision-strike
capabilities that America demonstrated in the first Gulf war, sought ways to reap some of
the political and territorial gains of military victory without crossing the threshold of overt
warfare.
A. Physical landscape
B. Cognitive manipulation
C. Information spectrum
D. Economic fabric
E. Social configuration
X. Major theatres
The clearest recent cases of grey-zone challenges are Russia’s intervention in Ukraine,
China’s assertive behaviour in the South and East China Seas and Iran’s use of proxy
militias to establish an arc of influence from Iraq through Syria into Lebanon. All three
countries recognise and to some extent fear superior Western military power. But all of
them also see vulnerabilities that they can exploit.
XIII. Chinese greyzone strategy expanding the turbulent maritime periphery: Gray
Zone conflicts with Chinese characteristics – String of Pearls policy-What are the
pearls at the IOR- Indian Ocean region?
String of Pearls the network of Chinese intentions in India Ocean Region (IOR). The network
of Chinese military and commercial facilities developed by China in countries falling on the
Indian Ocean between the Chinese mainland and Port Sudan.
A. Gwadar (in Pakistan) the Port of Gwadar Port of Chhabar in Iran
B. Hambantota (in Sri Lanka) the Port of Hambantota for Chinese use
C. Chittagong (in Bangladesh) the Port of Chittagong which gives it a free access to the Bay
of Bengal, which is strategically very important
D. Sittwe (in Myanmar) Kyaukpyu port. The Bay of Bengal has given China access to have a
commercial Maritime facility which can be used as a military facility at the time of conflict
E. Maroa, Maldives the Male airport(Feydhoo Finolhu) to a Chinese company for 50 years at
the cost of 4 million dollars
Chinese complicity in Russian-style hacker attacks on the West, but officially sanctioned
trolls send out hundreds of millions of social-media posts every year attacking Western
values and pumping up nationalist sentiment. In Asia, China is using gray zone tactics as
part of a campaign of creeping expansionism in the South China Sea. China’s grey-zone
campaign to assert uncontested control over the South China Sea and jurisdiction over
disputed islands in the East China Sea has been going on for much longer, and has turned a
darker shade of grey over time as the country’s confidence and power has grown. Since
2009, when China submitted a map to the United Nations showing a “nine-dash line” that
supported its claim to “indisputable sovereignty” over 90% of the South China Sea (see
map), it has applied what James Holmes of the US Naval War College has described as
“small-stick diplomacy” (as opposed to the big stick of conventional naval power), using its
highly capable coastguard and militiamen embedded in its fishing fleet to push other littoral
states out of waters to which it claims ancestral rights.
It has been able to cow most of its neighbours into sulky acquiescence while avoiding a
direct confrontation with American naval ships, which did not want to risk a major incident
over what China portrayed as maritime policing. When in 2013 China took its provocations a
step further by sending civil engineers to the Spratly and Parcel archipelagoes to construct
artificial islands, Xi Jinping said China had no intention of militarising them. But in 2017,
satellite images released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies showed
shelters for missile batteries and military radar installations being constructed on the Fiery
Cross, Mischief and Subi Reefs in the Spratly Islands. Fighter jets will be on their way next.
Mr Holmes suggests that such strategic gains cannot now be reversed short of open
warfare, which means they will almost certainly not be. The advent of Mr Trump serves
Chinese aims too. His repudiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership removed a challenge to
China’s regional economic hegemony, a key objective of its grey-zone strategy. And the
American president’s hostility to free trade and his decision to withdraw from the Paris
climate accord has allowed Xi Jinping to cast himself, improbably, as a defender of the
international order.
XV. Iran
A. Hizbullah
America’s inconsistency and lack of a long-term strategy in the Middle East has offered
boundless opportunities for grey-zone advantage-seeking. In the Middle East, Iran is using,
as it has for many years, subversion and proxy warfare in an effort to destabilize adversaries
and shift the balance of power in the region. These are leading examples of the gray zone
phenomenon today.
A. Hydrological warfare
B. Terrorism and separatism in Pakistan
C. Opposition to CPEC
D. The mantra of isolation
E. Media war and propaganda
F. Relations with Afghanistan
G. Construction of Iran’s Chabahar’s port
H. Surgical strikes
I. Transforming military doctrines
A. Making Pakistani ports dysfunctional by creating law and order situation in Karachi and
Pakistan
XX. Prominent complexities, paradoxes, and nuances at the heart of the gray zone
idea
XXI. Options for Pakistan: Need of coherent response and counter strategies to
hybrid warfare
A. Strengthening capacities
Pakistan should increase its abilities to understand, adapt, and prevail in these conflicts so
that they do not grow to a level of strategic disruption that threatens vital Pakistan
interests.