Public analysis for a contested world

Hybrid warfare is not one event. It is the pattern behind the noise.

HybridWar.ca brings intelligence experience, investigative context, and plain language analysis to foreign interference, transnational organized crime, illicit finance, lawfare, influence operations, cyber pressure, and economic subversion.

Global network illustration showing hybrid threat domains including cyber, lawfare, economic pressure, influence and transnational crime
Information operations
Cyber threats
Economic pressure
Lawfare and influence
Transnational crime
Scott McGregor media portrait

Founder and principal commentator

Scott McGregor

Scott McGregor is a former Canadian military intelligence operator, intelligence advisor to federal law enforcement, former Senior Intelligence Officer and policy analyst under a provincial Attorney General, and a Senior Fellow and Security Advisor to the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare.

He provides independent analysis on hybrid threats affecting Canada, North America, democratic institutions, and exposed sectors.

Cover of The Mosaic Effect by Scott McGregor and Ina Mitchell

Book

The Mosaic Effect

Connecting fragments others ignore. The Mosaic Effect shows how disparate events, actors, and data points can form a clearer picture of hybrid threat activity.

Areas of commentary

Signals that point to intent.

Hybrid warfare is visible when separate indicators are considered together. The site is built around that mosaic approach.

Foreign interference

Influence, elite capture, diaspora pressure, and covert state activity.

Illicit finance

Money laundering, professional launderers, casinos, real estate, and threat finance.

Transnational crime

Cartel networks, synthetic drug supply chains, corruption, and criminal facilitation.

Lawfare and coercion

Regulatory pressure, legal intimidation, reputation attacks, and economic subversion.

Media and podcasts

Recent appearances and public commentary.

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Scott McGregor interview in Washington, DC

Biography

Experience across intelligence, law enforcement, policy, and private sector risk.

Scott McGregor is a former Canadian military intelligence operator and intelligence advisor to federal law enforcement, with senior provincial experience as an intelligence officer and policy analyst under the Attorney General of British Columbia. He is Senior Fellow and Security Advisor to the Council on Countering Hybrid Warfare and Managing Partner of Close Hold Intelligence Consulting Ltd.

He co-authored The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party Started a Hybrid War in America's Backyard and provides commentary on foreign interference, illicit finance, transnational organized crime, economic subversion, and hybrid warfare.