The Hybrid Threats Observatory analyzes global trends and key factors of the “new warfare”, studies and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on national security.
Hybrid Threats
The term “hybrid threat” refers to an action carried out by state or non-state actors whose goal is to undermine or harm an adversary by combining military and non-military means, both overt and covert.
Malignant hybrid threats are a global phenomenon affecting democracies around the world.
Hybrid threat actions deliberately target the systemic vulnerabilities of States and the institutions of liberal democracies; activities that exploit undefined thresholds of detection and attribution.
It is vital to understand hybrid influence, disinformation activities, and psychological operations used by authoritarian regimes and terrorist organizations to undermine open and democratic societies, which can escalate into hybrid warfare.
Hybrid Warfare
What is hybrid warfare today? What are the motivations behind current conflicts? Who is fighting it? On what “battlefields”? By what means and with what objectives? How does it involve us in our daily lives? How can we defend ourselves?
Our analysts provide answers to these questions through an inquiry-based methodology of analysis to understand the various forms that contemporary warfare takes and provide reference tools in which to frame information to distinguish it from disinformation, propaganda and psyops.
The Institute has created the editorial series “Understanding Hybrid Warfare” published by Edizioni Machiavelli, in cooperation with partner editor firms.
