Ep 087 "Hybrid Warfare in the New Age: Japan Expands the Conflict Aperture (Part Two)"

Hybrid warfare Is a can of worms, a fascinating conjoining of kinetic and non-kinetic means of achieving victory or stale between warring nations.

This second episode examines an historical example of what I think is the closest modern hybrid warfare modality in the Japanese Empire in the 1930s leading to WWII; the.Imperial Japanese Army’s Tokumu Kikan – Special Service Organizations that laid the groundwork for this phenomenon in the modern west.

References:

Richard J. Samuels Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

John Llewelyn The Imperial Japanese Army’s Tokumu Kikan – Special Service Organisations: Connections Between Wartime and Peacetime Intelligence Activities

Report to Congress on Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe 11 August 2026

The Future of Hybrid Warfare

Hybrid Warfare: How to Escape the Conceptual Gray-Zone

The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession

Richard Feynman Cargo Cult speech at CalTech 1974

RAND wish-casting on drones in 2015.

Slaughterbots (2017)