Hybrid Warfare During The Cold War

The end of the cold war, and later the collapse of Soviet Union, triggered the new type of warfare, labeled as “hybrid war”. Conducted by the Russia, mostly in eastern European countries. For the Russia, as a main inheritor of the Soviet Union, hybrid warfare is a geopolitical approach. The objective is to have a high leverage on former Soviet nation’s political decisions. The hybrid warfare as a strategy, orchestrates the military and nonmilitary systems, seeks to operate in multiple domains, to find means to achieve an appropriate position of advantage in relation to an enemy, or continuously conduct insidious actions to weaken the adversary from the inside. The theory of hybrid warfare explains how to fight, without direct action and same
Because of that, KGB has created the basis for possible destabilization and chaos, in 15 republics of communist union. For example in Georgia they have formed three autonomous republics, settled people with different nationalities and gave them the double citizenship (Georgian and Russian). Additionally they were providing aggressive pro-Russian and anti-Georgian information propaganda. The intention was to create the aggressor Georgia and friendly Russia, who could be the guarantor of their possible independence in the future. Latter when the Soviet Union was broken down, for the Russian government, those regions were main source of influence on independent republic. Since 1991, Russia has been undermining the Georgian government, exploiting three main tools of hybrid war: political destabilization, economic warfare and information war (propaganda). The goal is to change the foreign political vector from the west, back to post-soviet Russian
The domestic conflicts are the main approach for the Russian activities in Georgia since early 1990th. The first warning signs of destabilization, have appeared in South Ossetia in late 1989, when Georgia was going to leave the soviet-union. Parallel to the Georgians leader’s attempts to acquire the independence, the KGB activated its cell among leaders of South Ossetia autonomous republic. They have started expressing national ambitions. The South Ossetia’s, head’s requirement was to change its status from the “oblast” of South Ossetia to autonomous republic. The KGB has needed escalation in Tskhinvali, to use as tool of influence on Georgian government. The KGB Georgian agents persuaded their leaders to strictly refuse South Ossetia leaders requirement, and not negotiate with them. The Russian spy cell was successfully working on both sides, and same time the Kremlin heads were trying to persuade Georgian politicians to change the decision of leaving the Soviet Union. The demonstrations in Tskhinvali and Tbilisi was going in parallel regime, and Russia’s hybrid war assets were increasing the pressure in South Ossetia. The tension reached its maximum in late 1990 and in 05 of January 1991, in south Ossetia has started military conflict between Georgian army forces and South Ossetia militants. The Russia has