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Hybrid Wars 5. Breaking the Balkans (V)

03/06/2016 by Andrew KORYBKO / 6 comments

(Please read Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV before this article) The research thus far has thoroughly explained the Hybrid War context in the Balkans and the specific regional vulnerabilities that are ripe to be exploited. This penultimate section will thus briefly elaborate a bit more on […]

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Are Russians in for yet another war?

04/04/2016 by ORIENTAL REVIEW / 15 comments

Do Russians want another war? If you are Russian, you would be surprised by the question. Why would anyone want war (hot or cold)? But if you are an American, and grew up fearing ‘bad Russians’ such question does not surprise you a bit. After all, the whole Cold War […]

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Hybrid Wars 4. In the Greater Heartland (II)

01/04/2016 by Andrew KORYBKO / 10 comments

(Please read Part I prior to this article) “The Eurasian Balkans” As promising of a potential that the Greater Heartland has in fulfilling what seems to be the world’s inevitable multipolar destiny, it runs the risk of being held back by the adroit manipulation of its “Eurasian Balkan” socio-political vulnerabilities. […]

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EU To Burundi: Regime Change Trumps Anti-Terror Help

30/03/2016 by Andrew KORYBKO / 16 comments

The EU has stepped up its behind-the-scenes role in organizing regime change in Burundi by taking the dramatic step to cut most of its funding for the country’s anti-terror contingent in Somalia, this according to the latest exclusive report from Reuters. Burundi provides nearly a quarter of the 22,000 African […]

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Hybrid Wars 3. Predicting Next Hybrid Wars

18/03/2016 by Andrew KORYBKO / 28 comments

(Please read Part I and Part II prior to this article) Theoretical Review Identifying The Targets: The first two parts of the series introduced new concepts to the Hybrid War theory and successfully tested them on the Syrian and Ukrainian cases. This proved that a certain methodology does in fact […]

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Hybrid Wars 2. Testing the Theory – Syria & Ukraine

11/03/2016 by Andrew KORYBKO / 39 comments

(Please read ‘Hybrid Wars 1. The Law Of Hybrid Warfare‘ prior to this article) The author’s book, “Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change” (available for free PDF download here), thoroughly makes the case that Syria and Ukraine are the US’ first victims of Hybrid War, but the […]

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Hybrid Wars 1. The Law Of Hybrid Warfare

04/03/2016 by Andrew KORYBKO / 338 comments

Oriental Review is very happy to announce that we will be regularly publishing Andrew Korybko’s latest research on Hybrid Wars. Building off of the strategies that he described in last year’s book of the same name, Andrew has conceptualized a new paradigm for understanding international relations and invented an accompanying […]

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“The New Middle East”: Russian Style (III)

10/10/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 2 comments

(Please read Part I, Part IIA and Part IIB before this article) Barely anything is certain in life, but if there’s one thing that geopolitical observers can most surely expect, it’s that the US will fiendishly find a way to pay Russia back for the sudden reversal that Moscow’s inflicted […]

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How the Pentagon plans to defeat Eurasia and roll out Robotic Warfare (I)

17/06/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 24 comments

Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work expounded upon the US’ military strategy in Eurasia during a speech at the Army War College Strategy Conference on 8 April, revealing critical insight into the Pentagon’s formal approach to forthcoming conflicts. Work’s words should be read in full by any strategist endeavoring to […]

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