Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book covers the use of the elements of subversion and perception within hybrid warfare. It attempts to control the flow of news within setting of ongoing military operations. It develops the application of term and practice of hybrid warfare with two examples from currents tensions and conflicts that have captured the attention of politics, public and news media in international relations and affairs. The book contains the elements of communication and politics inform much of the content and the cases. It makes the case of media being used as instrument of waging war. The book also engages in the issue of hybrid war, but managed by Western countries, which involves the invocation of humanitarian wars in conjunction with a sustained media-based information war that creates very diametrically opposed set of projected realities in public information sphere.