Description: An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was almost bloodless – fought as much through propaganda, cyberattacks and subversion as by force of arms – but it is crucial for our understanding of both modern warfare and recent Russian history. Ironically, this slick triumph eventually led to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the largest and costliest conventional war in Europe since 1945. This is a fascinating account of the Crimea conquest from a supremely qualified expert on modern Russian forces. Illustrated throughout, it explores how Russia developed its new model of ‘hybrid’ or ‘grey zone’ warfare, and planned and deployed it against Crimea, from the choreographed appearance of ‘spontaneous’ protesters through to the deployment of unbadged Russian elite forces. In this book Mark Galeotti explores the lessons that Russia, Ukraine, and the West took from it – correctly and mistakenly – and how this apparently textbook operation sowed the seeds that would erupt so catastrophically in 2022.
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EAN: 9781472853844
UPC: 9781472853844
ISBN: 9781472853844
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Format: Paperback, 80 pages
Author: Galeotti, Mark (New York University, New York, USA
Book Title: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens t
Item Height: 0.5 cm
Item Length: 24.8 cm
Item Weight: 0.22 kg
Item Width: 18.6 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
