The command of the U.S. army published a Handbook on how to counteract the strategy of “Russian hybrid war”, reports the National Interest.
In the “Russian portal of fighting the new generation,” published in December 2016 and recently posted on the Internet, is considered a hybrid of Russian military tactics and how the U.S. military can counter it.
The Handbook is a publication of the 62 pages that contains pictures and information about Russian art, which could be used for waging asymmetrical war and was involved in the “Russian operations in Ukraine and Crimea,” the article reads. They, as noted, involved a small special operations unit — sometimes undercover — and “a small, well armed groups of regular Russian troops, supporting local separatist groups”.
The book concludes that the Russian strategy is based on “achieving regime change by combining with local forces”, rather than conventional military victory of the Russian troops.
The Handbook notes that Russia has used the US approach, which consists in the exploration of the battlefield with manned and unmanned reconnaissance systems to detect enemy forces, which can then be destroyed by aircraft and artillery.
Reference U.S. army is also considering Russian tactical operations in a mixed war. To illustrate, the action in the East of Ukraine.
In the publication listed several “weaknesses” of the Russian armed forces, according to military experts, may use forces of the United States. In particular, it is noted that the soldiers mobilized at the call, there is no motivation. In addition, there is weak logistics, and the fact that “air and artillery support tends to be hard and depends on volume, not accuracy.”
In addition, in the guide, particularly given the recommendation that U.S. forces were trained to fight in conditions when the electronic warfare clogged frequency GPS and radio communications.