hybrid warfare

Hybrid warfare is a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare and cyberwarfare.

Probably the most recent example of hybrid warfare would be that of the performance of Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon War.

In addition, hybrid warfare is used to describe attacks by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, improvised explosive devices and information warfare.

Hybrid warfare can be used to describe the flexible and complex dynamics of the battlespace requiring a highly adaptable and resilient response.

In Hybrid Warfare they have proved flexible, deploying in armour where necessary, in a variety of vehicles, or on foot as the situation has demanded:

Note: As of September 2012, the term Hybrid Warfare is not found in any official Joint Doctrine Publications.

For military tactics, Washington's "Hybrid Warfare" strategy was compared to Napoleon's "Bait and Bash" strategy.

United States Marine Corps Lt. Col. Bill Nemeth's defined hybrid warfare as "the contemporary form of guerrilla warfare" that "employs both modern technology and modern mobilization methods."

David Kilcullen author of the book "The Accidental Guerrilla ISBN 0195368347" states hybrid warfare is the best explanation for modern conflicts, but highlights that it includes a combination of irregular warfare, civil war, insurgency and terrorism.

The journalist Frank G. Hoffman defines a hybrid warfare as any enemy that uses simultaneous and adaptive employment of a complex combination of conventional weapons, irregular warfare, terrorism and criminal behaviour in the battlespace to achieve political objectives.

Washington's Hybrid Warfare involved the use of hit-and-run guerrilla warfare to weaken the British Army and then use the Continental Army, to fight the conventional battles and sieges which successfully led to his greatest victory at the Siege of Yorktown.