Hybrid Hype: How NATO’s Think-Tank Echo Chamber Masks Russian Gains

While analysts chase AI fantasies, Moscow quietly expands its industrial and battlefield edge.

Western policy shops—from RAND and CSIS in Washington to Britain’s RUSI—have begun churning out glossy papers that promise a “strategic victory” over Moscow. Yet a close reading shows they are already conceding that a battlefield defeat of Russia is unattainable. Their new recipe is an open-ended “hybrid war” waged in three arenas: information, cyber-in…