Introduction: Hybrid Warfare 2.2

The notion of hybrid warfare, implying the use of means not counted amongst the weapons already known or conventionally accepted, or even understood, has been a steady tendency in human history since the earliest recorded struggles. But both its means and the degree of their integration to normal policy and warfare practices change. From paid agents and spies through special operators and assassins, the first iteration was concluded with the advent of international bodies claiming impartiality but favoring selected players. The addition of the cyber dimension, which dissociates operations from spatial limitations regarding distance in 3-D settings and the insertion of the new guise of bioagents, with the full force of synthetic biology, which democratized/dispersed genetic engineering and xenobiology, unmistakably create a much more risky and complex operational continuum that exponentially increases possibilities, opportunities and global risk.