""If a German corvette ship is attacked and sunk by a Russian submarine, you would call that war," Sonke Marahrens, a colonel in the German Armed Forces and a military strategist, said at a recent meeting of German security forces. "But what if metal shavings were thrown into the ship's gears and it is then no longer operational: Is that war?""
"Europe is experiencing a steady increase in hybrid attacks. Military personnel, police officers, politicians and scientists have warned that the situation is serious. "We are experiencing cyberattacks, the circumvention of sanctions and arson attacks on a scale we have never seen before," said Silke Willems of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence agency. Identifying the perpetrators is extremely difficult."
A corvette was rendered inoperable by metal shavings in its gears shortly before delivery to the German navy. Europe is experiencing a steady increase in hybrid attacks combining cyber, physical sabotage, sanctions circumvention and arson. Law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies are encountering unprecedented scales of incidents that degrade critical infrastructure and operational capability. Attribution is often unclear; investigators struggle to determine whether incidents stem from state actors, criminal networks or infrastructure failure. Adversaries exploit a gray zone using cost-efficient agents and covert methods, complicating legal, political and military responses.
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