1st Edition

Non-Military Warfare A War of Our Time

Edited By Oscar Jonsson, Ilmari Käihkö Copyright 2026
236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume analyzes the phenomenon of non-military warfare in theory and practice, including its relation to military warfare, and how states can understand and counter this activity. War has traditionally been understood as soldiers with weapons fighting on a battlefield. Today, however, it is difficult to say who is a combatant, what weapons are, or even where the battlefield ends.... Read more

1. Introduction: A War of Our Time, Ilmari Käihkö & Oscar Jonsson  2. The Meaning of Victory and Defeat in Non-Military Warfare, Jan Angstrom  3. Who Are Participants in Non-Military Warfare?, Jack McDonald  4. Russian Non-Military Warfare: Active Measures in Ukraine, Sanshiro Hosaka  5. Cyber Crisis Management in Non-Military Warfare, Benjamin Jensen  6. The Cybersecurity Firm and the State: Disclosure, Escalation, and Non-Military Warfare, Nina Kollars & Michael Poznansky  7. War by Law: Legal Statecraft with International Aims, Justin Key Canfil  8. Science Securitized, Technology Transformed: Innovation and Exploitation in Non-Military Warfare, Elsa B. Kania  9. Diaspora Statecraft and Non-Military Warfare, Audrye Wong  10. Conclusion, Oscar Jonsson & Ilmari Käihkö

Biography

Oscar Jonsson is the director of phronesis analysis, a senior non-resident associate fellow at NATO Defense College, and an associate senior lecturer at the Swedish Defence University. He is the author of three books and holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Ilmari Käihkö is university researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, an associate professor of war studies in the Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University, and a veteran of the Finnish Defence Forces.