CONCLUSIONS ON HYBRID WARFARE

A pioneer in the field of Public Relations, Edward L. Bernays, emphasized the use of words as weapons in his work entitled „Propaganda” in 1928. In „Public Relations”, he considered the word and image to be the representation of tools for building peace or war. Therefore, in 2013, the chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimovstated that „the non-military means have proved to be used four times more frequently in modern conflicts than in conventional conflicts.” The Russian Federation is led following Lenin's idea: “If Russia cannot control a country, then the respective country must be at least destabilized.