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Elisabeth Braw, senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, presents on Day 2 of the Seminar on Irregular Warfare/Hybrid Threats (SIWHT) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on June 4, 2025, illustrating how adversaries exploit ambiguity, legality, and the limitations of democratic response. Her lecture further explored how hybrid threats are increasingly creative, decentralized, and hard to attribute.
“You don’t have to be a military genius to cause harm anymore. You just need creativity and access to a smartphone,” she said.
Braw’s message to participants was clear: the pace of innovation must match that of adversaries – a message perfectly aligned with the seminar’s 2025 theme: "Navigating the Gray Zone: Crafting Multi-Domain Responses and Innovative Strategies."
"If you take away one thing from this morning, it’s that innovation is not only taking place in the gray zone, it’s flourishing," Braw said.
Over the next two weeks, nearly 90 participants from 66 countries will thoroughly examine the evolving toolkit of hybrid threats: coercive economics, disinformation, cyber operations, lawfare, and proxy forces.
Through case studies, debates, and hands-on exercises, SIWHT equips practitioners with practical frameworks to identify vulnerabilities and develop national and allied responses across the cyber, space, and maritime domains.
| Date Taken: | 06.05.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 06.12.2025 03:32 |
| Story ID: | 500304 |
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