A guerra híbrida dos EUA contra a Síria no século XXI

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the Hybrid War strategy undertaken by the United States against Syria within the Arab Spring phenomenon, one of the first social upheavals where the internet, social networks and other communication technologies were used as a popular mobilization tool. This work assumes that the control of the natural resources of gas and oil, and the change of regime of the Syrian government are the strategic objectives grouped in the foreign policy of the United States of Total Spectrum Control, and the Hybrid War is just that indirect approach model used to try to achieve that totalizing political objective. In order to verify this assumption and reach the general objective of the research, a qualitative, exploratory, explanatory research was carried out based on war manuals, military doctrines, books, articles, newspapers and documents. Among the main discussions of the research are that the Syrian Spring and its forms of operation, Hybrid War, Color Revolution, Unconventional Combat are its background. It is argued that these forms of operation helped to construct the idea of a civil, violent and sectarian conflict, while concealing an even greater dispute over the domain, control and supply of gas and oil to Europe, with several implications, ethnic and religious, both for Syria and the Middle East, and for the balance of world power. It follows that social networks such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and non-governmental human rights organizations were used to organize the protests, to disseminate videos, images and messages in the context of the Hybrid War used by the United States against Syria. However, its success was only partial, occupying one third of the territory of Syria.