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Unidentified subcommittee opening: speaker warns Russia, China wage 'hybrid warfare' across Europe
Summary
An unidentified speaker told a subcommittee that Russia and the People’s Republic of China are conducting coordinated hybrid warfare—cyberattacks, sabotage, drone incursions and economic pressure—urging witnesses to offer concrete policy recommendations and citing a Microsoft report of a 25% rise in Russian cyber activity.
An unidentified speaker opened a subcommittee session by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are at war," and urged the panel to treat a rising tide of hybrid threats from the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China as an urgent national‑security problem.
The speaker summarized NATO’s definition of hybrid warfare as "the combination of military and nonmilitary, as well as covert and overt means, including disinformation, cyberattacks, economic pressure, deployment of irregular armed forces, and use of regular forces," and argued those tactics are being used to blur the lines between war and peace and to destabilize…
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