Airports are glassy between-spaces of transit and are often unthinkingly passed through. Waiting to board a flight at a hot and sticky Leipzig-Halle Airport in 2023, I definitely did not think that this provincial and somehow hollow-seeming German airport – expanded post-1990 for passenger numbers which did not quite materialise – would become a key front of “hybrid warfare”. Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 novel Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front, depicts the brutality of muddy-murderous trench warfare with crystal-clear lucidity. Hybrid warfare, on the other hand, is anything but lucid.  On Tuesday, the German government…

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