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The Landscape of Hybrid Threats – A Conceptual Model

Related topic:

Global and Geopolitical Factors and Undesirable Foreign Influences

Description:

This report offers a structured analytical framework to understand complex strategies combining military and non‑military tools that hostile actors employ to influence, destabilise, or undermine societies without open conflict. It breaks down components such as actors, objectives, domains targeted, and tools used, and explains how hybrid threat activity unfolds across phases to affect political, social, economic and information environments. The model helps policymakers, analysts and practitioners grasp the multifaceted nature of hybrid influence operations and design more effective detection, preparedness and response strategies.

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Language:

English

Date: 

09.03.2026

Proposed by:

PPHS

Source:

Publications Office of the European Union, 2020