London, Feb. 11, (dpa/GNA) - Russia's apparent use of covert and other non-traditional techniques in Ukraine has highlighted the need for NATO to prepare for "hybrid warfare," a global security think tank said on Wednesday.
"Moscow successfully employed a broad range of traditional and non-traditional instruments to achieve its goals in Crimea, and to some degree in eastern Ukraine," the International Institute of Strategic Studies said in its annual Military Balance report.
There was "unease about possible gaps in NATO's capacity to counter Russia's use of hybrid warfare techniques" as Moscow "challenged the European security order," said John Chipman, the IISS's chief executive.
"The events in Ukraine over the last year and the erosion of virtually all trust between Western powers and Russia have challenged the post-cold war European settlement," Chipman said.
"Western countries are now having to devise a strategy -- that would need to be a 'whole of government' strategy -- to deal with an apparently revisionist Russia," he said.
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