BU Research Blog

This week, Dr. Sascha Dov Bachmann, A/P in International Law at BU’s Dep of Law and Director of CROLS and extraordinary Docent (A/P) in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University gave a skype presentation as part of the Australian Defence College Profession of Arms Seminar series titled the Future Joint Leader 2040: An Intellectual Edge in the 21st Century.

Sascha spoke about Lawfare and the Future Military Leader and building on his work w/ A Munoz from NATO SHAPE HQ:

‘Lawfare takes place in the hybrid communications based perspective with Lawfare “reaching the desired target as the warhead of a missile, while media Information Operations (InfoOps)/StratCom would be the power flight of that missile” with Information Ops resembling: “non-kinetic, communications related, and informational activities that aim to affect cognitive, psychological, motivational, ideational, ideological, and moral characteristics of a target audience”’

Lawfare is using the whole spectrum of so called ‘accelerated warfare’.