Do you know the atributions of Naval Spetsnaz?
Hybrid warfare is an evolution of earlier indirect, proxy and covert wars. It is a way of expanding territory and pushing geopolitical agendas with every means possible up to the point of an overt military action. Inevitably the enemy will be attacked in multiple ways simultaneously creating a complex and often contradictory situation which plays out in he aggressor's favor. Many of these attacks will be obvious and hard to deny, but crucially they will all be denied. It can therefore include substantial troop movements as long as there is some degree of deniability so that it's one power's word against another. In practice it is to attack by a mixture of special forces, information campaigns and back door proxies.
In Hybrid Warfare Naval Special Forces can adapt to several tasks:
- Location, identification, tapping and disruption of underwater communications cables;
- Observation of ‘enemy’ naval exercises;
- Coastal raids which can be passed off as carried out by aligned irregular military units notionally outside Russia’s control;
- Kidnapping of high-value targets within reach of coast;
- Low-level sabotage and ‘show of force’ missions intended to frustrate, distract and intimidate enemies;
- Making up for limited conventional naval assets during sudden flare-ups in conflict;
- Training and equipping waterborne saboteurs of aligned irregular/rebel units.
These are just a few, the reader is invited to think up more. The only point is that Special Forces, particularly maritime ones, are particularly suited to low-level conflicts where a degree of deniability is required.
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