title: Russia’s ‘hybrid’ aggression against Ukraine
abstract: Conventional wisdom often deems that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was caused by a mix of transient factors, such as the views of a few people at the very top, President Vladimir Putin above all, suffering from a wounded amour-proper, post-Imperial syndrome and a parochial mentality. It is indeed difficult to find out when exactly Russia’s ruling clique started to plan a war on Ukraine in a practical manner. The Russian military command developed its own concept of a hybrid war. Historical