ABSTRACT
In the face of evolving hybrid threats, it is crucial for any society to develop and maintain competence and capability to effectively respond to and mitigate such threats. This chapter examines the role of training and exercises as command organizations seek improvements in situational awareness, decision-making, communication, and team dynamics. Using an experimental, educational exercise with a hybrid threat scenario as basis for data collection, the findings are consistent with a pattern that connects enabling and emerging factors to the outcome: an increased capability to respond to hybrid threats. Findings suggest that emergent leadership, information sharing, distribution of power, and an awareness of the unforeseen, all enabled by a flexible organizational structure, are factors that lead to an effective response toward hybrid threat situations.
