Hybrid threats are designed to blur the distinction between peace and war, as well as complicate and fall below the target’s detection and response thresholds. The wicked problems created by hybrid threats require new solutions for early warning. – writes Patrick Cullen, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).
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Hybrid CoE Strategic Analysis
Hybrid CoE Strategic Analysis 8: Hybrid threats as a new ‘wicked problem’ for early warning
by Patrick Cullen
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