Hybride Bedrohungen und Bevölkerungsschutz

In: Sicherheit und Frieden: S + F = Security and Peace, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 141-145

Abstract

Modern societies that depend on the functions of critical infrastructures are easily threatened by hybrid phenomena, which are a combination of conventional and asymmetric means of warfare. The issue of hybrid threats is challenging modern societies overall, but in particular public security and the business location of modern industrial states, such as Germany. The innovative criterion of this challenge is the conversion of regular and irregular capabilities and actions, and the greatest problem is that this emergence may only be recognized when it is too late for a response. Responses therefore should be based on concepts of resilience for critical infrastructures as well as on the full spectrum of actors and capabilities of the so-called comprehensive approach. But the necessary pre-condition for action is the political awareness and willingness. (S+F/Pll)