Hezbollah’s cyber capabilities should be quite worrisome to Western intelligence agencies. Iranian backed Hezbollah is using cyber warfare as a tool of coercion that has shifted the battlefield from urban streets to enemy servers. Hezbollah is utilizing a hybrid method of warfare by mixing armed and psychological warfare to antagonize its adversaries. During Israel’s occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s, Hezbollah is credited as a factor for the Israeli withdrawal by pioneering the use of hybrid tactics. Meanwhile, substantive funding from Tehran has enabled Hezbollah to shift its coercive tactics to the servers of its Western adversaries.
The theory of proxy warfare formulates the underpinnings that unmask the proxy environments by revealing their certain components i.e., the impact of time, the principal-agent problems, the role of power in proxy warfare, the exploitative and transactional models that unmask the course of the relationship between principal and the agent.
The principal-agent problems are the result of the situation in which the principal assigns the work to the agent who performs the work. Meanwhile, the power of the principal over the agent compels the agent to do something that it may not be willing to perform.The Islamic Republic of Iran as a principal cultivated its ties with Shia militias due to its transnational revolutionary ambitions.
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