Review of the Air Force Academy No 1 (28) 2015 49 Others think that future war will bear "amongst the people”, "in the presence of civilians", "against civilians" or "civil defense" (Smith, 2006: 5), leading to massive loss of life among them. Britain's official military doctrine from 2009, refers to the character of the war in negative terms and defines future hybrid battlefield of the future as inevitable one "contested, congested, cluttered, connected and constrained" (MOD, 2010). Also, most work on global strategic trends provide a violent future marked by conflicts over diminishing natural resources, climate change and population growth. On the other hand, in contrast, lies a series of projections of future supporting, based on statistics that the number of wars both major and minor, tend to diminish (Pinker, 2011). But the best clues about the type of war near future are provided by the current asymmetric conflicts, conflicts that take the form of widespread insurgent movements involving operations in rural and urban areas with the support and sympathy of the local population against coalition interventions West led by the United States (in the Middle East, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) or insurgency backed by a foreign power against their own governments (hybrid warfare waged by Russia in Ukraine). Conflicts of today's world shows us clearly that we live in a world of conflict unconventional hybrid, becoming more numerous, that they will probably coexist in the future, with classic conventional wars, held directly or through intermediaries. (Johnson: 2014: 71). 1. INTRODUCTION Throughout history, especially after long periods of peace, has always been difficult for contemporaries to identify changes in the nature, type and character of the war. In the same time you may see that after periods of economic growth we’ll face decline and recession. Are those two connected? Today we assist to a very difficult period for economic environment. Humanity or specialist has no answer for the needs of society itself. Is that because we traverse a distinct period that we never have faced with or is that because we didn’t adapt to society evolution and we didn’t learn previous lessons about economy and how these interacts with conflicts, security and societies responses to these events. Being difficult to make economic predictions changes in economic and political life were determined by circumstances, changes or adjustments in the use of technology and the dynamics of conflict. Although, there have always been well- established principles and strategies of international relations. Modern prophets of the apocalypse, including Robert Kaplan (1994), Francis Fukuyama (1992), Samuel Huntington (1996) and, to a lesser extent, David Kilcullen (2013) offered a vision of a future world dystopian, characterized by anarchy Thomas Hobbes, while others, such as Martin van Creveld (1996, 1999) and Phillip Bobbitt (2003) found that the state is in terminal decline as an actor in international relations, which pave the way for the establishment of chaos and war (Johnson, 2014: 1). HYBRID WARS IN THE AGE OF ASYMMETRIC CONFLICTS Andrei JOSAN, Cristina (COVACI) VOICU Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Abstract: The beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by proliferation of hybrid wars, held between flexible and sophisticated adversaries engaged in asymmetric conflicts using various forms of warfare according to the purpose and timing. The emergence of this new kind of war specifically for the new globalized economy, increasingly integrated and polarized, has questioned the traditional and conventional military thinking, generated a debate on the definition of the new concept of hybrid war and appropriate measures to take in order to adapt to the new reality imposed by it. Keywords: asymmetric warfare, conflict, hybrid wars, hybrid threats, security, warfare