Knowing his military is outmatched against the Americans, he is blurring the distinction between war and peace, deploying tactics that exist in, and thus widen, the gray between: militia violence, propaganda, cyberattacks, under a new rubric the Russian military sometimes calls "hybrid war."
Source: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8845913/russia-war
Does the sentence suggest that the Russia army is greater than the army of the USA (so I understand the phrase "to be outmatched against")? If so, this statement is in contrast to my knowledge and as well as to the logic of the sentence (because Putin is aware that his military is weaker he has to use "hybrid war").