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Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change Kindle Edition

by Andrew Korybko (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Sputnik International’s political analyst and journalist, Andrew Korybko, just published his first book on “Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change”. It was reviewed by the Diplomatic Academy of Russia and released with the assistance of the People’s Friendship University of Russia, where Andrew is a member of the expert council for the Institute of Strategic Research and Predictions. His detailed work proves that Color Revolutions are a new form of warfare engineered by the US, with everything from their organizational makeup to geopolitical application being guided by American strategists. But unlike earlier researchers who have touched upon the topic, Andrew takes his work even further and uses the latest examples of the War on Syria and EuroMaidan to argue that the US has deployed a second, more dangerous step to its regime change toolkit.

Hybrid Wars, as he labels them, are when the US meshes its Color Revolution and Unconventional Warfare strategies together to create a unified toolkit for carrying out regime change in targeted states. When a Color Revolution attempt fails, as it miserably did in Syria in 2011, the backup plan is to roll out an Unconventional War that builds directly upon the former’s social infrastructure and organizing methods. In the case of EuroMaidan, Andrew cites Western news sources such as Newsweek magazine, the Guardian, and Reuters in reminding everyone that in the days immediately prior to the coup’s successful completion, Western Ukraine was in full-scale rebellion against the central government and the stage was set for an Unconventional Syrian-esque War in the heart of Eastern Europe. Had it not been for the sudden overthrow of President Yanukovich, the US was prepared to take the country down the path of the Syrian scenario, which would have been its second full-fledged application of Hybrid War.

Andrew’s revolutionary research ultimately shows that it was the US, not Russia, which spearheaded the use of Hybrid Wars, and that given his proven findings, it’s irresponsible to even call Russia’s alleged involvement in the Ukrainian Crisis a ‘hybrid war’. In fact, the US is far ahead of any other country in practicing this new method of warfare, as no other state has attempted a Color Revolution thus far, let alone transitioned it into an Unconventional War when their initial regime change plans failed. While some many think that such occurrences are spontaneous and happenstance, Andrew documents how Hybrid Wars are not only created from the ground-up by the US, but how they’re specifically deployed in areas where they’d be most geostrategically advantageous for the promotion of its unipolar policies.

Thus, not only does Andrew describe the very essence of Hybrid Wars, but the final part of his book forecasts where he believes they may happen next. He introduces the groundbreaking concept of the Color Arc, a contiguous line of states stretching from Hungary to Kyrgyzstan and where the waging of Hybrid Wars would most seriously damage Russia’s national interests. This is the first time that Color Revolutions have ever been analyzed through a geopolitical prism, and it brings forth a completely different way of looking at this weapon’s utilization. This new paradigm is absolutely essential for understanding the US’ new approach to regime change and the form, both physical and geopolitical, it’s expected to take in the forthcoming years.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B014GA5SX8
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 24, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4074 KB
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Laurence38
5.0 out of 5 stars Hybrid Wars--a briefing book of highest value everyone should own.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015
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Andrew Korbyko has created the most authoritative handbook for military, political, economic and ideological analysis of the modern warfare waged on every continent.

To understand the components, the dynamics, the intentions and the results, Hybrid Wars is the perfect reference. It is a fast, well-organized, pithy textbook that brings the highly technical down to the easily comprehended and accessible format.

This is how regimes are changed, economies are destabilized, conflicts grow into wars, democracies are bent and shaped in the streets and public squares by outsiders, and how some color revolutions succeed and how others fail.

Indispensable for anyone who wants clarity without any slant or prejudice. Just facts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Immunization against deception
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This book is a timely antidote to the outright lies, distortions, and conspiracy theories being promulgated by mainstream media sources and official western propaganda narratives
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I would rather eat a bag of sugar free gummy bears
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1.0 out of 5 stars The author Andrew Korybko is working for Russian propaganda network ...
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The author Andrew Korybko is working for Russian propaganda network.
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川流桃桜
5.0 out of 5 stars ハイブリッド戦争の一般理論的化の試み
Reviewed in Japan on April 5, 2022
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本書が対象としている読者は「ハイブリッド戦争」と聞いて直ぐ様「米軍やNATOのハイブリッド戦争」だと理解出来る人。「ロシアや中国のハイブリッド戦争」を思い浮かべてしまう人はお呼びではない。そしてユーゴやリビアやシリア等の具体例について既に或る程度の知識を有している人。「中国が香港の民主化を弾圧！」とか「ロシアがウクライナを侵略！」とか騒いでいる人達は本書を読んでも何を書いているのかサッパリ理解出来ないだろう。本書は地政学アナリストである著者が、個々のハイブリッド戦争の事例からその目的や手法について一般理論化を試みたものだ。

　ハイブリッド戦争の中身は多岐に亘るし、定義の仕方によって色々なものが含まれることになるのだが、コリブコ氏はカラー革命と非正規戦争を二本柱だと考えている（個々の事例についてはそれぞれF. William Engdahl氏の’Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance’と’The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy’がお薦めだ）。人工芝の所謂「民主化運動」と主にジハード主義者によるテロや破壊活動が如何にシームレスに繋がり、背後の黒幕達の地政学的戦略目標達成に如何に貢献するかが詳細に分析されている。ジョン・ボイド米大佐が提唱した「OODA（Observe,Orient,Decide,Act）ループ」と云う意思決定と行動に関する理論やカオス理論、AIの”Swarm”理論等を土台にして「情報作戦」や「知覚管理」、不定形の低強度紛争、「ネットワーク戦」が展開され、最終的に標的とされた社会の不安定化と云う結果が齎される経緯が解説されている。

　以前世界で頻発するカラー革命やその未遂事件が人工芝だと理解出来ていない日本のリベラル派の或る学者が、近年の「民主化運動」の非中心性についてドゥルーズだのガタリだのを持ち出して来て考察している記事を読んだことが有るが、ここで現代思想に訴えるのは見当外れだと言わざるを得ない。カラー革命や非正規戦争の思想的・技術的源泉については或る程度まで公式の文書記録によって直接的に辿って行くことが出来るので、その辺りのジャーナリスティックな観点がすっぽ抜けていたのではお話にならない。本書を読めば、今後ハイブリッド戦争がどう展開して行くであろうかの予測も含めて、その辺りの理論的裏付けを得ることが出来る。

　本書はカラー革命のマニュアルとも言えるジーン・シャープの『独裁体制から民主主義へ』を手許に用意しておくと更に理解が深まるだろう。コリブコ氏は或る記事で、シャープの本はカラー革命を推進する上でも役に立つが、カラー革命に対抗する上でも役に立つので、本物の草の根活動家達も熟読すべきだと主張していた。納得出来る意見だと思う。本物の草の根運動はマスコミによる大規模なプロパガンダキャンペーンなど期待出来ないが（寧ろ黙殺されるか中傷されるのがオチだと断言出来るが）、社会を引っ繰り返すプロの知識は知っていて決して損は無い筈だ。本書で使用されている基本モデル（イデオロギー、資金、社会、訓練、情報、メディア）は”The Law Of Hybrid War: Eastern Hemisphere”と云う大部の本で更に発展・補完させられているので、興味が湧いた人はそちらへ進んでみるのも良いだろう。

　本書が扱っているのは国家単位でのハイブリッド戦争だが、2018～19年のグレタ・ブームや2020年以降のCOVID-19パンデミック詐欺によって、グローバルな規模での大衆動員やハイブリッド戦争もまた喫緊の問題であることが明らかになった。こちらはコリブコ氏のカヴァー範囲から外れるものの、両者の間に重要な繋がりが存在するのは明白なので、何れこちらの方面の体系的理論化も検討して行く必要が有るだろうと思う（既に多くの論者が試みているが、部分的・表面的なものが殆どだ）。更なる議論の深まりを期待する。
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