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The Mueller Report and Hybrid Warfare
June 3, 2019 (Analysis) When Robert Mueller III stepped in front of the cameras, there were a few things he said. Most of the press is paying attention to whether he issued a report for Congress to take up impeachment, or not. Most of the discussion has moved on to whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi will take this up, or whether she will continue to resist. The politics of impeachment have taken center stage. However, there was something else to the statement, and the whole first section of the report is concentrating on this.
The United States was the victim of an attack in 2016. It was not unlike a Pearl Harbor, or even a September 11. Yet, there are no piles of bodies, nor a military mobilization. Partly, the actions taken by the Russian Federation are the kind that is hard to grasp for most Americans. Nor is the President of the United States, thin skin that he is, and poor leader, willing to even consider it. The Russian Federation participated in the American elections, and put its finger on the scale by favoring the election of Donald J Trump.
They used hybrid warfare. It is different from what most Americans think of war. It is hardly a linear conflict. Both are defined as follows:
Linear conflicts are defined by a sequential progression of a planned strategy by opposing sides, whereas nonlinear conflict is the simultaneous…