This pathway highlights lectures, interviews and public hearings that help put concepts into voice, chronology and institutional context. Some resources are available only in French or only in English.
Links last checked: July 31, 2026.
The notes explain why each resource is useful and where its limits are. Inclusion does not mean Hybrid Warfare Insight endorses every conclusion. Some resources are available only in French or only in English.
Related on HWI: Understanding hybrid warfare; cognitive biases; semi-active networks; glossary.
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Cycle « Guerre hybride et continuum de conflictualités »
Source type: public parliamentary documentary dossier. Institution: French National Assembly, National Defence and Armed Forces Committee. Language: French-language resource. Date: hearings from May 13 to June 24, 2026.
A single documentary dossier of ten hearings on hybrid warfare and conflict continuums: nine public and filmed, one held in camera, with written minutes available.
Why it matters: It brings French institutional, diplomatic, cyber, intelligence, economic-security and territorial-resilience perspectives into one sequence.
Limit: No standalone final report was identified during verification; the dossier should not be described as a final report.
- 13 May 2026, 09:00 — Christine Dugoin-Clément; Jean-François Pelliard — Public — written minutes
- 13 May 2026, 11:00 — Vincent Strubel, ANSSI — Public — written minutes
- 20 May 2026, 09:00 — Xavier Brunetière; General Nicolas Leverrier — Public — written minutes
- 20 May 2026, 11:00 — Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens; Anne-Sophie Dhiver — Public — written minutes
- 27 May 2026, 09:00 — Sir Thomas Drew; Viljar Lubi — Public — written minutes
- 27 May 2026, 11:00 — Agnès Romatet-Espagne — Public — written minutes
- 3 June 2026, 09:00 — General Aymeric Bonnemaison; Céline Berthon — In camera — written minutes
- 3 June 2026, 11:00 — Gustave Gauquelin; Thomas Bertin — Public — written minutes
- 10 June 2026, 11:00 — Generals Emmanuel Naëgelen and Patrick Touak — Public — written minutes
- 24 June 2026, 11:00 — Generals Patrik Steiger and Jean-Luc Villeminey — Public — written minutes
Comment les États mettent-ils en œuvre la guerre de l’information ?
Source type: video lecture. Speaker: David Colon. Host: Diploweb. Language: French-language resource. Date: 2023.
A structured introduction to how states use information warfare, linked to Colon’s wider historical work.
Why it matters: It is accessible enough for orientation while retaining a durable documentary value.
Limit: It is a lecture format and cannot replace the book or primary sources.
La Guerre de l’information
Source type: university video lecture. Speaker: David Colon. Host: Université de Lorraine. Language: French-language resource. Date: 2024.
A longer university lecture on the history, mechanisms and democratic stakes of information warfare.
Why it matters: It gives more time to chronology and conceptual framing than short media interviews.
Limit: The resource is in French and tied to the lecturer’s published synthesis.
Comment la désinformation influence-t-elle les conflits modernes ?
Source type: interview. Speaker: Christine Dugoin-Clément. Host: Planisphère / Diploweb. Language: French-language resource. Date: 2025.
An interview on disinformation, perceptions and contemporary conflicts.
Why it matters: It connects influence to conflict dynamics without reducing hybrid warfare to a cyber topic.
Limit: It is interview-based and centered on the speaker’s area of expertise.
La conquête des esprits au cœur de la guerre froide
Source type: podcast / interview. Speaker: Maud Quessard. Host: Le Collimateur / IRSEM. Language: French-language resource. Date: 2019.
A historically grounded discussion of U.S. public diplomacy and influence during the Cold War.
Why it matters: It helps prevent information warfare from being treated as only a social-media phenomenon.
Limit: The focus is U.S. public diplomacy and should be paired with other actor perspectives.
Hybrid Warfare: A Conversation with Dr. Frank Hoffman
Source type: expert interview / podcast. Speaker: Frank G. Hoffman. Host: Foreign Policy Research Institute. Language: English-language resource. Date: 2025.
A retrospective conversation with a key author in the modern hybrid-warfare debate.
Why it matters: It lets readers compare the original concept with later usage and criticism.
Limit: It reflects Hoffman’s own interpretive position and should be paired with critical scholarship.
Mark Galeotti | The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
Source type: video lecture. Speaker: Mark Galeotti. Host: Reaction / YouTube. Language: English-language resource. Date: video page.
A public lecture-style introduction to the weaponisation of non-military instruments and competition below open war.
Why it matters: It is a useful audiovisual companion to Galeotti’s book.
Limit: The YouTube format is less stable than a publisher or university page and should be checked periodically.
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation & Political Warfare | Thomas Rid
Source type: video interview / lecture. Speaker: Thomas Rid. Host: Hidden Forces / YouTube. Language: English-language resource. Date: video page.
A historically oriented lecture on disinformation and political warfare.
Why it matters: It places digital manipulation inside a longer history of active measures.
Limit: The active-measures frame is historically specific and should not absorb every form of influence.
How to fight (and win) an information war
Source type: talk. Speaker: Peter Pomerantsev. Host: TED. Language: English-language resource. Date: September 2024.
A short talk connecting propaganda, belonging and democratic counter-narratives.
Why it matters: It is useful for thinking about response without reducing influence to fact-checking alone.
Limit: TED format compresses argument and evidence; it should be paired with longer work.
Invisible Rulers
Source type: university lecture. Speaker: Renée DiResta. Host: University of Maryland iSchool. Language: English-language resource. Date: 2024.
A lecture on rumor, networked influence, participatory propaganda and the transformation of authority.
Why it matters: It connects social dynamics, platforms and influencers in a way that complements institutional reports.
Limit: The analysis is strongly anchored in the U.S. information ecosystem.