The Gerasimov Doctrine | What is it all about?

Lieutenant-Colonel A.J.C. Selhorst, Royal Netherlands Army, in his article describes it as follows: "In recent years Russia has conducted operations in several former Soviet states to establish a sphere of influence in those countries, prevent NATO and the EU from expanding and protect Russian interests and ethnic Russian minorities abroad. Moscow uses the Russian Federation Armed Forces (RFAF), which have developed a way of war that goes way beyond the use of military hardware alone. The Chief of the General Staff of the RFAF, General Valery Gerasimov, was the first to describe a framework for the new operational concept to achieve the objectives of Moscow’s near-abroad policy." Another monograph, The Gerasimov “Doctrine” The day the West started to fight its own shadow, by Colonel Soenke Marahrens,  provides us with an in depth analysis of General Gerasimov’s article “The value of science in prediction” from 2013. And, last but not least, the thoughts of Major Andrew J. Duncan, Canadian Armed Forces on the same subject.