Connections: The Quarterly Journal ISSN 1812-1098, e-ISSN 1812-2973 Yuriy Danyk, Tamara Maliarchuk, Chad Briggs, Connections QJ 16, no. 2 (2017): 5-24 https://doi.org/10.11610/Connections.16.2.01 Research Article Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 Hybrid War: High-tech, Information and Cyber Conflicts Yuriy Danyk, a Tamara Maliarchuk, a and Chad Briggs b a Zhytomyr Military Institute of Radioelectronics S.P. Korolyov, http://www.zvir.zt.ua b Global INT Abstract: This article examines the advanced technological, information and cyber components of hybrid war and the introduction of suggested countermeasures to counter information and cyber threats and attacks. The main hypothesis of the authors is that revolutionary development and rapid implementation of technologies in innovative ways in all spheres of life facilitate and shape the basis for the transformation of theoretical and practical paradigms of war and conflict. The focus of the article is on the hybrid nature of modern conflict. Keywords: Hybrid warfare, information operations, cyber war, innovative warfare, Ukraine. Introduction Analyses of geopolitical and geostrategic environments have hinted at a refor- mulation of both the philosophy and art of war, developments brought about from the deployment of new technologies that allow variable intensity and strategies in conflict. These new methods, when combined with traditional un- derstandings of ĐoŶfliĐt aŶd seĐuritLJ, are ofteŶ ĐoiŶed as hLJďrid ǁarfare. This paper examines the nature of hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe, with a specific focus on the tactics and strategies employed by Russian and allied forces in Ukraine since 2014. The concept of hybrid warfare is not particularly new, representing a com- bination of conventional and unconventional/irregular warfare, extending be-