Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Presents the Global Security Challenge for Our Time

The West lacks a doctrine for a world of nonpeace and nonwar in which our opponents routinely engage in violent and aggressive actions while eschewing all-out confrontation.

Russia is engaged in hybrid warfare against the West. It is not preparing for hybrid warfare. It is already engaged in it.

This reality of constant, pervasive, and widespread Russian aggression against the West was brought home to me by Daniel Silva’s brilliant new novel “Ransom.”

Mr. Silva captures the wide range of Russian aggressive, criminal, and at t…