“THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF THE PARTS”
Towards Developing a Multidimensional Concept of Armed Forces’ Resilience Towards Hybrid Interference
Vendula DIVIŠOVÁ, Libor FRANK, Jan HANZELKA, Antonín NOVOTNÝ, Jan BŘEŇ
In this paper, we contribute to the recent debate on resilience by exploring a specific issue of the armed forces’ resilience towards hybrid interference. While hard (or technical) resilience of some hybrid campaign elements such as cyber-attacks has been addressed in the literature, the soft dimension of resilience is seriously underdeveloped. For that purpose, we elaborate on the concept of soft resilience and describe its psychological, institutional, social, and national dimensions. This theoretical discussion enabled us to develop an understanding of resilience in the military as the capacity of the military to fulfil its core mission enabled by physical and moral components of the fighting power and to continually transform and adapt in face of external hostile influence targeting perception and decision-making of the armed forces members and leadership.
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Acknowledgments
This research is part of the project “Armed and Security Forces Resilience Towards Hybrid Threats” (VJ01010122) supported by the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic as part of the programme “Strategic Support of the Security Research Development in the Czech Republic 2019-2025 (IMPAKT 1)”.
Keywords
Resilience; Hybrid Interference; Hybrid Warfare; Armed Forces.
Title in English: | “THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF THE PARTS” |
Title in Czech: | „CELEK JE VĚTŠÍ NEŽ SOUČET JEHO ČÁSTÍ“ |
Type: | Article |
Author(s): | Vendula DIVIŠOVÁ, Libor FRANK, Jan HANZELKA, Antonín NOVOTNÝ, Jan BŘEŇ |
Language: | English |
Abstract: | English/Czech |
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ISSN: | ISSN 1214-6463 (print) and ISSN 1802-7199 (online) |
DOI: | 10.3849/1802-7199.21.2021.02.003-020 |
Issue: | Volume 21, Number 2 (December 2021) |
Pages: | 003-020 |
Received: | 08.10.2021 |
Accepted: | 15.10.2021 |
Published online: | 16.12.2021 |