Dear friends,
Our Saker blog contributor Andrew Korybko has just published his first book. Here is the press release written by our friends at Oriental Review. Check it out and make sure to grab a copy of the book!
Cheers,
The Saker
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source: http://orientalreview.org/press-release/
Sputnik International’s political analyst and journalist, Andrew Korybko, just published his first book on “Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change”. It was reviewed by the Diplomatic Academy of Russia and released with the assistance of the People’s Friendship University of Russia, where Andrew is a member of the expert council for the Institute of Strategic Research and Predictions. His detailed work proves that Color Revolutions are a new form of warfare engineered by the US, with everything from their organizational makeup to geopolitical application being guided by American strategists. But unlike earlier researchers who have touched upon the topic, Andrew takes his work even further and uses the latest examples of the War on Syria and EuroMaidan to argue that the US has deployed a second, more dangerous step to its regime change toolkit.
Hybrid Wars, as he labels them, are when the US meshes its Color Revolution and Unconventional Warfare strategies together to create a unified toolkit for carrying out regime change in targeted states. When a Color Revolution attempt fails, as it miserably did in Syria in 2011, the backup plan is to roll out an Unconventional War that builds directly upon the former’s social infrastructure and organizing methods. In the case of EuroMaidan, Andrew cites Western news sources such as Newsweek magazine, the Guardian, and Reuters in reminding everyone that in the days immediately prior to the coup’s successful completion, Western Ukraine was in full-scale rebellion against the central government and the stage was set for an Unconventional Syrian-esque War in the heart of Eastern Europe. Had it not been for the sudden overthrow of President Yanukovich, the US was prepared to take the country down the path of the Syrian scenario, which would have been its second full-fledged application of Hybrid War.
Andrew’s revolutionary research ultimately shows that it was the US, not Russia, which spearheaded the use of Hybrid Wars, and that given his proven findings, it’s irresponsible to even call Russia’s alleged involvement in the Ukrainian Crisis a ‘hybrid war’. In fact, the US is far ahead of any other country in practising this new method of warfare, as no other state has attempted a Color Revolution thus far, let alone transitioned it into an Unconventional War when their initial regime change plans failed. While some many think that such occurrences are spontaneous and happenstance, Andrew documents how Hybrid Wars are not only created from the ground-up by the US, but how they’re specifically deployed in areas where they’d be most geostrategically advantageous for the promotion of its unipolar policies.
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Thus, not only does Andrew describe the very essence of Hybrid Wars, but the final part of his book forecasts where he believes they may happen next. He introduces the groundbreaking concept of the Color Arc, a contiguous line of states stretching from Hungary to Kyrgyzstan and where the waging of Hybrid Wars would most seriously damage Russia’s national interests. This is the first time that Color Revolutions have ever been analyzed through a geopolitical prism, and it brings forth a completely different way of looking at this weapon’s utilization. This new paradigm is absolutely essential for understanding the US’ new approach to regime change and the form, both physical and geopolitical, it’s expected to take in the forthcoming years.
“Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change” can be picked up in soft cover form at the People’s Friendship University in Moscow. As he’s offering his work for free, Andrew kindly asks that readers who are pleased with it consider donating to charity and individual efforts that directly assist the victims of the US’ Hybrid Wars on Syria and Ukraine. He hopes that your generous donation can help make their American-inflicted suffering more manageable. He can the reached at the mail: korybko.e@my.mgimo.ru
a important book for FREE !!
should go like hot cakes…..
Thanks a lot!
Thank you very much for providing us with a copy your first book Andrew.
I already downloaded it to my computer, will suspend my current readings, and will start reading yours as a priority today.
So, this is how you plan to counter the well-paid western propaganda? By providing real value information free of charge? That is not fair…
Congratulation Andrew… I will continue to follow you on your writings.
Thank you SunLion!
Andrew is an outstanding analyst – despite my occasional criticisms re emphasis, he is excellent on motivation and historical context.
Also writes with exceptional intellectual clarity.
I am only relieved he works from the Russian (which is fast becoming the international, or ‘rule of common law’) rather than the Anglo-Zionist ‘ imperialist’ perspective.
Can you imagine the situation if he worked for Brookings? Scary.
Great to hear this Andrew – I only hope more will too.
Eimar, thank you! That’s quite a comliment that I won’t ever forget!
Andrew Korybko: Right on, Mr. Korybko, right on. Often times the two aspects of the coup rest on different social groups within the society a realization of which can be used to defuse them if proper strategy is applied. The armed forces are important and always have been trained and used by the US shadow government in Latin American for example. My military source says that all the Ukrainian army generals paychecks are paid by the US. Also, Marx talked about the lumpen proletariat which with the decline of the family, religion, and school system along with cheap drugs and soulless news and entertainment, is actually a potent force in the Western world–no need for fascism and a pseudo race based victimization narrative ( the holodomor) in order to mobilize them.
Teranam13, thank you! Hope you enjoy the book!
Congratulations, Andrew, It is that you are not only brilliant but also a tireless worker. What a production!
I’ll read it as soon as I can. Thank you for your generosity.
May I understand that donations should be sent to Andrew himself?
Hi Elsi,
Thank you very much! About the donations, I unfortunately wasn’t able to manage things on the financial backend so I sadly can’t facilitate them. Good luck, though, and thanks again for your support!
Best,
Andrew
“…the closer that US destabilization
operations get towards their targeted cores (Russia, Iran, China), the lower the
probability of direct warfare and the higher the chances that indirect means
(Color Revolutions and Unconventional Warfare) will be applied.”
Not necessarily. Brazil is a current example.
Venezuela too.
Although the old fashioned elite/military coup has not been abandoned either, as we saw in Honduras a few years ago; at least one attempt in Ecuador looked more like an old-style decapitation than a “color revolution”. The “color revolution”, if necessary developing into a guerilla insurgency, is a part of the playbook that has been used more lately, but is more of a shift of emphasis and increase in sophistication than a replacement for other tactics. And it certainly has its background over the years; the “Syria option” could as well be called the “Nicaragua option” after the Contras’ terror campaign which ultimately pushed the people to capitulate to imperialism in an election. And back in Chile in the lead-up to 9/11 (1973), they had “color revolution”-like tactics alongside an economic war softening the people of Chile up for the coup. They had no doubt hoped these tactics could discredit Allende enough that he could be disposed of without the need for direct military intervention, but as things stood the people were demoralized enough that fewer complained or resisted when the coup did come.
I suppose one difference now is that the imperialists are more and more cynical and arrogant (and at the same time desperate), wanting or needing to topple regimes for smaller and smaller infractions of the mafia rules, and so the playbook calls for toppling more governments which are broadly acceptable to the local elites and military, where a coup is difficult to arrange. On the other hand, anyone planning to run a populist and/or leftist government by now is well aware of the perils of the military and is likely, given much time, to take steps to neutralize it as a threat. Chavez, for instance, very consciously recast the military as a populist vehicle, bringing rank and file soldiers in friendly contact with the people, putting allies in command positions, and opting out of relationships with the School of the Americas. The process wasn’t complete at the time of the attempted coup, but even so while many note the role of the masses of poor coming down from the hills in the coup’s failure, not so many notice the refusal of much of the military, particularly most of the infantry, to co-operate with the coup; this in my opinion was equally key.
Anyway, between these two factors, the US is faced more often with governments it wishes to overthrow whose military cannot be counted on to co-operate. I suspect this is a key reason for resorting to insurgencies.
Color revolutions have probably become more common mainly because they’re easier to do than they used to be; the technologies, institutions and techniques are better suited to them than in the past. They have a lot of advantages relative to a coup if they can be pulled off–more legitimacy, the appearance of US non-involvement and so on. But they have their disadvantages; against a popular and resolute government they will tend to fail, they can be clumsy, timing is iffy, and forces may be unleashed which are hard to control. Hopefully as more people (such as Mr. Korybko) analyze the US use of these tactics, improved playbooks for combating them will become well known among governments likely to be targeted.
Of course for me, the best playbook for blocking color revolutions is simple: Govern for the people and with popular involvement, rather than for elites. The real revolutionaries will shut down the color “revolutionaries” if they have the tools and something to support, a government that is their own.
Fascinating, Spacibo! I read your recap of the Kremlin’s plan for Syria at Sputnik. Unmentioned is any attempt to expose the Outlaw Empire’s double game of attacking Daesh while actively supporting it. Shouldn’t that be part of Russia’s strategy? My contribution will go toward Donbass relief.
Andrew,
I was all set to go to Amazon and pay for it. Free? You are too kind.
I’ll begin reading it shortly. I’ll put on my Mac and iPad.
Best to you in all your endeavors. I’m looking forward to journeying through this one.
Keep at it. The world will soon know your name, deservedly.
Hi Larchmonter445,
Thank you! I really hope you enjoy reading it!
Best,
Andrew
Thank You and hopefully more than us the core will read it. Do you mine if I pass it around to other sites?
Thanks a lot jo6pac! Yes, please pass it along to other sites, and kindly suggest that they use the Oriental Review link for the download.
It’s great that you released the book for free. A book like this needed to be written. I think it’s also important to include Libya in the list, as it was the template for Syria. In my opinion, the main reason for the transition from conventional wars to the hybrid style was the disastrous war in Iraq. The thousands of American casualties made the war very unpopular at home. So they needed a strategy that would still allow them to achieve “regime change” but avoid US casualties. I think this was really a return to the Kosovo strategy. Have proxy forces trained armed and assisted by special forces on the ground, while you bomb the country from the air with virtually no danger to your own soldiers. Modern air power is so great that you can pretty much win an entire war from the air, especially if it’s in a desert with no natural cover. The proxy army and special forces mostly just act as support and to designate targets for air attacks.
After Libya, they planned to repeat the strategy in Syria using chemical weapons as a pretext. Their plan was stopped when Russia negotiated the peace deal for Syria to give up its chemical weapons – therefore eliminating the pretext for the attack. The Zionist neocons like Victoria Nuland were never going to allow Russia to get away scot-free for preventing a war they had spent years working towards. That’s where Ukraine comes in – to punish Russia for blocking the attack on Syria. Obama’s “change” following the Iraq invasion was really nothing more than a change of tactics. Rather than learning any moral lessons about launching unprovoked wars of aggression to overthrow foreign governments, the “lesson” Obama learned was simply to achieve the same result in a “smarter” way. Another component of this strategy is to give more emphasis to US allies/client states in order to make the US leadership less obvious. In Libya they emphasised France and Britain’s role, in Syria they emphasise the role of Saudi Arabia and Turkey. We can also see this now with Yemen. This would be the equivalent of emphasising the role of Poland and Hungary in invading Czechoslovakia in 1968 while ignoring the fact that the entire operation was lead by the Soviet Union. Countries like Saudi Arabia and unfortunately the entire EU, are not much more than US client states. I say this as someone who lives there.
I always enjoy Andrew’s articles and I’ll make sure to have a read through this book. He has real talent at analysing political events and the world needs people to counter the Zionist narrative. Again, great that you are not doing this for money. Another thing that seperates you from the neocons. They all expect to be handsomely paid for their diabolical work. Thanks again Andrew, from Ireland :)
Dear Mr. Andrew Korybko,
Thank you for providing your material/book/opinion free of charge. In a very material world, that’s a gesture on par with every great wo/man throughout history.
I’ve downloaded the .PDF format, but not read it yet, and, as such, will not comment on it.
What I want to mention is; this is the world I live in. As you will no doubt notice, politics isn’t mentioned among any of it.
That must be for a reason…
Dear Andrew,
Firstly, congratulations on your book and thank you for your generosity in allowing readers to get a free soft copy – most kind.
I am really looking forward to reading the book and your excellent analysis on a subject that is so important to understand for everyone everywhere. I have really enjoyed reading all your articles and analysis both here at the Vineyard, Sputnik and elsewhere. You and the Saker (among others) are so crucial to the information war we are living in and trying to get the truth out.
Thank you again.
Rgds,
Veritas
Essential reading for the present and next generation. I am a little surprised that these fake revolutions were allowed to continue to happen given all the clues (i.e. note to the multipolar world – get rid of the NGOs etc before they get rid of you). Hopefully this book will help stop the destruction.
re: book on Hybrid Wars. Well, Dominic Lieven wrote a book on Alexander I ‘s defeat of Napoleon and he said in a lecture about his book…” Napoleon was defeated because the Russians out thought him.”
It does appear that this tradition is being boldly carried on today with your discussion. Thanks for the free download. I shall pass it on. Lieven also credits Russian intelligence ( military and diplomatic espionage), the mobility of the army ( horses not tanks back then) and small unit morale based in the particular institutions of Russian peasantry and a 25 year enlistment time.
And, no, it was not the Russian winter for those who like to credit it as the major factor in a campaign that truly lasted years ( 1812 to 1814) with many battles.
Thanks Andrew for your generosity and excellent analysis.
1989 tam rebellion courtesty of unitedsnake, on the eve of gorbacev’s visit to beijing.
2008 tibet riots, courtesy of the snake, on the eve of beijing olympics.
2009 xinjiang bloodbath, courtesy of the snake, during g8 meeting. hu jing tao had to rushed back to china to deal with the crisis.
2014 ukraine putsch , courtesy of the snake, while moscow was basking in the
limelight of sochi olympics extravaganza.
2015 tianjin monstrous blast, on the eve of beijing’s victory parade commermorating ww2,
a gift from g-o-d….. or is it the antichrist ?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/02/03/the-irony-of-bush-s-indignation/
http://www.tomatobubble.com/id878.html
2022 winter olympics , beijing.
watch out xi, wonder what *present* is *god* comtemplating for china right now ?
I’m more concerned about a closer time frame.The Victory Day ceremony is still to come.And these new attacks in Thailand (that seem to experts unusual) targeting Chinese tourists,are a bad sign for the future.
recent racial attacks targetting chinese in malaysia were most likely to undermine the najib govn and to further sow discord bet kl and beijing.
in xinjiang hans come under escalating attacks by cia mercs aka uighurs freedom fighters, there are copy cat attacks in turkey as well.
in afpak, many chinese workers, tourists have been slaughtered by cia mercs the ttp.
u’r right about the latest terror attack in thailand.
many observers point out the victims are mostly mainland and tw chinese.
what does the fundamental law of probability says …
+once is accident, twice a coincidence, thrice…..enemy action+ !
i agree there might be more nasty surprises lined up for the victory parade in beijing.
Thank you Andrew for allowing us to read you book for free.It was very generous of you.You are a good writer and I’m sure I will learn much valuable information from it.
Thank you for the great read, as an American living in Hawaii, I thank you for your account of the modern-day battle field. I try explaining the events of the world to my family an friends an they have No idea of what’s really going on. Now I can show them your book. Good Job.
Korybko: Hybrid war is controlled chaos–your definition. Dream on. This is not like an atomic reactor where you pull in and out graphite rods according to precise physical formulae. Color Revolution is like a gigantic flash mob and has very little staying power unless drama ( preferably involving victimization) can be created. Lenin spoke about this in his polemics on what he called ultra leftists and it creates dynamic in which conflict can be maintained. However if the state acts decisively and brutally it does tend to waste your cadre ( or leadership) and derail your organizing efforts. Now what happened in Armenia when the police stopped beating up the demonstrators and the government started addressing the legitimate issues? And the people started asking each other, do we want the chaos of a Ukraine? Is this a color revolution? So much for neocortical manipulation. Seems like the people’s cortex were in context and fully engaged. The color revolution was derailed. The fact is “controlled Chaos” is an oxymoron which means that if it is properly handled it is no problem. poof! gone! dead from its own contradictions.. The hegemon is dealing with forces of paradox which it does not begin to understand. But in the USA where it has prepared people for decades and understands the culture because it makes the culture, it has developed a sense of false power.
The thing to worry about in the Caucasus is an unholy alliance between drug gangs and Islamic fundamentalists. CR are an urban manifestations of young, educated people, unemployed ( in Hong Kong people after awhile had to get to work and were annoyed by the street blockages). The Green Revolution in Iran actually had a point to it i.e. a platform of demands and had support among the urban middle class, but it takes more in Iran to destabilize in this way because other elements are very well organized and did not join in.
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Thank you for this excellent book.
I have already read the first chapter and it will serve as my reference – always on a connected disk.
More comments later.
rgds.!
thanks for this essential reading for an african (Ethiopian form Addis Ababa who are trying to break free from the scorage of poverty. bravoo Andrew!
I took a few moments and read through the first few pages then quickly put a copy in the ‘Must Read’s folder. Looking forward to finishing it later when time permits.
well done Andrew and thank you for sharing your insite and knowledge.
To Andrew Korybko, your insightful analysis is a treasure and i too look forward to reading your book and spreading the word, may the force be with you, always.
Thanks from Espina in Шотландия
Thanks a lot everyone for your really warm support! I’m glad that you’re all interested in my work, and I hope that the content meets all of your expectations. Thank you again, and please follow up with me about your thoughts after your done reading it. I may not be able to reply to each and every individual message I receive, but I’ll surely read what you all have to say and will appreciate the time you took in telling me your thoughts.
Best,
Andrew
Thank you Andrew! You put up an impressive effort. The book, besides interesting is easy to read.
Out of subject but maybe somehow related and interesting. I watched a documentary about an extremely accurate forecaster called Marty Armstrong. I will not go into details about his achievements (check it in Wikipedia). In that documentary he mentioned about the plans of the Empire when Jeltsin left power. It was meant that Berezovsky (according to it) would take the power in Russia and all Russia s wealth (energetic, gold, etc) where supposed to be looted by the usual parasites/gangsters. It occurred (at that time) that a man called Putin took power instead and the rest is history.
Oscar
While I’d never heard of Martin Armstrong, your mention of Boris Berezovsky in regard to the aforementioned documentary peaked my interest so I did a little research and found that the movie/documentary about Mr. Armstrong is titled, reasonably enough, “The Forcaster”. I’m going to try to put my hands on it.
But just as important, Mr. Berezovsky was an especially intriguing character in the machinations that took place after the resignation of Mr.Yeltsin. Berezovsky apparently thought, at one point, that Putin could be manipulated to look out for the interests of the oligarchs, but of course he was oh, so wrong.
I’ve just finished reading a book titled, “Once Upon a Time in Russia” which details the strategems engaged in by Mr. B. and others to protect their interests. It’s alluded to in the book, and I’ve read other sources that corroborate it that, after taking office, Putin called all the major oligarchs to a meeting, where he told them, (paraphrased) “You can keep your millions; just stay out of my way.”
Berezovsky, btw, was found dead, hanged by the neck in his bathroom, in Berkshire, UK, in 2013. He reportedly died penniless and in debt. Murder or suicide? Who knows?
The book was a riveting read. I’d highly recommend it.
Nonetheless, it still remains to be seen whether these necessary intangible preconditions can be created outside of the civilizational space of each Eurasian Power, thereby strongly decreasing the likelihood that they will practice Hybrid War within the next decade or two, if at all. The aim of the book is to prove the existence of Hybrid War, the indirect adaptive approach to regime change that combines Color Revolutions and Unconventional Warfare into a unified strategy.