Irregular Operations and the Biothreat

The irregular operations as a part of the hybrid warfare have been historically augmented by the use of biological amenities, may these be bioagents proper or toxins, to attain destructive but, more so, increasingly and disproportionally disruptive effects. The institutionalized murder (a.k.a. “leadership attacks”) seems to get traction within the last 50 years with assassinations of civilian targets (dubbed “terrorists”), and military ones without any formal or informal state-of-war and are implemented by military amenities, such as armed UAVs, by secret agents possibly of paramilitary stock, and by recruited local or imported operatives/contractors, from a mercenary market or a wide pool of dissidents. This assassination spree would be bolstered by the use of bioagents, cellular (microbial agents) or molecular (biochemical agents), which would allow clandestine application and would provide, upon request and design, a delay of the initiation of the results, allowing the perpetrators to escape and providing deniability to the contracting authority. World history, especially its aspects residing into lore and occult, seem to recount many such cases, if testimony is read properly. The same effect, multiplied due to the technological advancements in both delivery and engineering of bioagents, may be a very destabilizing and ruthlessly effective means, capable of causing Global Catastrophic BioEvents, Extinction Level Events or, at the very least, communal, societal and state collapses by targeted delivery to key human, environmental and agricultural targets.