""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? Marahrens is an expert on hybrid threats.""
""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. For the police and intelligence services, it's often not clear whether they're dealing with a Russian attack, a criminal act or just a case of dilapidated infrastructure breaking down."
Europe faces a growing wave of hybrid attacks combining cyber operations, sabotage, sanctions circumvention, and arson. Sabotage can render military assets non-operational, as metal shavings disabled a corvette's gears before delivery. Attackers exploit a gray zone between state action and criminality, which greatly complicates attribution for police and intelligence services. The ambiguity hinders legal and military responses and allows adversaries to rely on low-cost agents to achieve strategic effects. Strengthened detection, clearer legal definitions, resilience measures, and enhanced international cooperation are needed to counteract and attribute these multifaceted threats.
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