Russian general pitches 'information' operations as a form of war

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MOSCOW - The chief of Russia's armed forces has endorsed the kind of tactics used by his country to intervene abroad, repeating a philosophy of so-called hybrid war that has earned him notoriety in the West, especially among US officials who have accused Russia of election meddling in 2016.

General Gerasimov said Russia's armed forces must maintain both"classical" and"asymmetrical" potential, using jargon for the mix of combat, intelligence and propaganda tools that the Kremlin has deployed in conflicts such as Syria and Ukraine. Though definitions of the term vary, some analysts see a progression from the blend of subversion and propaganda used in Ukraine to the tactics later directed against Western nations, including the United States, where Russia's military intelligence agency hacked into Democratic Party computers during the 2016 election. Russia denies interfering in the election.

That article prompted some Western analysts to call the Russian approach the"Gerasimov Doctrine," though other experts object to crediting the general or the Kremlin alone. When discussing a blend of military, political and information operations, Russian strategists use the terms"complex approach" or"new generation war," according to Mr Ivan Konovalov, a military analyst and director of the Center for Studies of Strategic Trends.

 

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