It is based on this photograph by TASS photojournalist Aleksandr Ryumin, minus the mask concealing the green man’s face. The monument honors Russian special operations forces that occupied Crimea ahead of its annexation from Ukraine. In May 2015, a life-sized monument was unveiled in the Russia Far East city of Belogorsk during celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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Opting for another euphemism popular among Crimeans - vezhlivyye lyudi or “polite people” - another commentator wrote, “With regard to who these polite people are who took Crimean airfields, the Council of Ministers, and the Supreme Council, it’s not difficult to guess, it’s special army units.” In February 2014, the 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade of Russia’s Main Intelligence Director ( aka GRU) deployed “for the protection of strategic facilities in Crimea…until the full stabilization of the situation in Ukraine” according to the Regnum news service. Varlamov drives home his commentary with this photograph from the first days of Russia’s 2014 incursion into Ukrainian Crimea: Locals sardonically call them ‘polite people’ or simply ‘green men’.” But Russian propaganda tells us it’s a ‘local defense force’. “Intuition tells us if something looks like a Russian soldier, rides on Russian military equipment, and says it’s a Russian soldier, then it’s probably a Russian soldier. It conveys “an ironic sense, something which in any case cannot be trusted, a knowingly false report.” Ilya Varlamov elaborates: When Russian special operations forces began appearing on Sevastopol streets, some Crimeans adopted a slight semantical shift, from zelonyye chelovechki - green men - to zelonyye lyudishki - little green men - an Americanism purposefully appropriated for its association with fantastic stories of alien encounters and flying saucers. Their past and their future is a cardboard box, which can be opened when it’s time to begin playing a new game. “The notorious ‘green men’ who appeared in Crimea - they’re like the toy soldiers children play with, without a name or a face. TASS correspondent Vladimir Zinin explains the term: Russian special operations forces engaged in nonlinear/hybrid warfare are known euphemistically as zelonyye chelovechki or “green men”. The hypothesized force begs several questions, a primary one being this: are American values too incongruent with the demands of nonlinear/hybrid warfare to allow United States forces to execute such a strategy effectively? Restated, is American political culture simply uncongenial to ideas of nonlinear/hybrid warfare? A related - and equally important- question is whether the conditions required to prosecute nonlinear/hybrid warfare successfully are congruent with American geopolitical interests? Losey asked a defense industry audience to imagine the possibility of American “little green men” for use in low-intensity operations. In late January, Naval Special Warfare Command commander Rear Admiral Brian L. “Once the green men are there,” General Breedlove warned, “a revolution happens quickly.” A year later he added, “What we see in Russia now in this hybrid approach to war, is the use of all the tools that they have to reach into a nation and cause instability.” “NATO must be prepared for little green men,” those “armed soldiers without insignia that create unrest, occupy government buildings, incite the population,” he said. The claimed emergent advantage in asymmetric warfighting - nonlinear war as conceptualized by Russian strategists, sometimes called hybrid warfare - concerns such Western military commanders as General Philip M. “Not only are our potential adversaries beginning to pace us in the things at which we have become adept, they’re doing so in asymmetric ways as well, whether it’s little green men in Ukraine or precious habitat being destroyed in the South China Sea to put new facts in the water, hybrid warfare is here to stay.” I listen, hope, and then despair.ĭevelopments in Ukraine and the South China Sea signal an emerging gap in asymmetric warfare capabilities, according to a nearly year-old warning from Admiral James A. I see them here, I see them there, I see them always everywhere. All this is supplemented by military means of a concealed character. The focus of applied methods of conflict has altered in the direction of the broad use of political, economic, informational, humanitarian, and other nonmilitary measures – applied in coordination with the protest potential of the population.
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