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Biden’s Russia Challenge

Posted: November 30th, 2020

By Daniel Hoffman

Daniel Hoffman is a former senior officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer. Hoffman also led large-scale HUMINT (human intelligence gathering) and technical programs and his assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle East and South Asia. Hoffman also served as director of the CIA Middle East and North Africa Division. He is currently a national security analyst with Fox News.

Even though national security did not play a significant role during the U.S. presidential campaign, President-elect Joe Biden is set to inherent a world in crisis when he takes the oath of office in January.

Among the national security challenges facing the U.S. in 2021 are those posed by a revanchist Russia, led by a president who has shown aggressive actions on the world stage over the past four years whether in Syria, the Arctic, poisonings on foreign soil, or criminal cyber behavior that seems scarcely impacted by U.S. deterrence efforts, at least the ones the public knows about.  

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