Hybrid wars: analysis of a perspective

Abstract

In his text published in 2015, Andrew Korybko analyzes the new methodology employed by the USA to intervene in the internal political affairs of nations in strategic areasfor its geopolitical power. In this study based on the concept of hybrid warfare, the author shows how this process of external interference relies massively on the use of data analysis and indirect approaches to create what is called the weaponization of chaos, or the utilization of social chaos as a way to co-opt a portion of the target society that will actively work against its national interests without even noticing it: to exemplify this dynamic, we will do a brief analysis of the Brazilian context based on the concept created by the author. In this text we suggest that the explanatory potential of the concept as proposed by Korybko to analyze current sociopolitical contexts is great, and, when combined with the more traditional themes and theories from different areas of the social studies, can create an interesting theoretical renewalfor the challenges faced by them at this historical moment. The paper is divided in five different topics, addressing first the context that allows hybrid warfare to exist and what justifies it; in the second movement, we analyze the development of this technique; in the third, we explain how it occurs peacefully, while in the fourth, we analyze how  analyze what role violence plays, in the fifth we lose the reasoning by concluding that the concept can enrich debate  that address the corrosion of democracies

Keywords: Hybrid wars; Geopolitics; Colored revolutions; Fourth generation warfare; Latin America.