Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations.
This second episode examines an historical example of what I think is the closest modern hybrid warfare modality in the Japanese Empire in the 1930s leading to WWII; the.Imperial Japanese Army’s Tokumu Kikan – Special Service Organizations that laid the groundwork for this phenomenon in the modern west.
References:
Richard J. Samuels Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Report to Congress on Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe 11 August 2026
Hybrid Warfare: How to Escape the Conceptual Gray-Zone
The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession
Richard Feynman Cargo Cult speech at CalTech 1974
RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.
Slaughterbots: if human: kill() (2021)
How are Drones Changing Modern Warfare?
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Carl von Clausewitz On War
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
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