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Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison

Current discussion of Russian "hybrid warfare" tends to revolve around concepts like disinformation, proxy militias, cyber operations, sabotage, and psychological manipulation designed to fragment, [...] More

Putin Again Bungles Strategy: Why His War of Attrition will Sink Russia

On February 14, 2022, with Russia poised to invade Ukraine, I questioned whether Vladimir Putin’s reign to that point had revealed him to be a strategic master or a strategic failure. Nearly four [...] More

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Conservatives of America: Putin Is Not Your Ally

American conservatives be advised: Vladimir Putin does not share your values and is not your friend. You may be tempted to regard the Russian [...] More

America, Ukraine and the Illusion of an Isolationist Choice

In 2022 Russia launched its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, a big and bloody war between the two largest countries in Europe with no end in [...] More

Information is the Most Important Tool in the new War for Truth

OPINION — The first step to winning a war is recognizing you’re in one. The world’s democracies are finally waking up to the waves of malign [...] More

How We Should be Preparing now for a Russian Collapse in Ukraine

OPINION — The consensus among geopolitical pundits seems to be that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has turned into a slog and that US and NATO policy [...] More

Indications and Warnings of Regime Instability in Russia

A Few Things to Look Out ForOPINION — The Wagner mutiny in Russia was short-lived, but it was nevertheless a watershed event in post-Soviet history [...] More

Prigozhin’s Revolt is not the End for Putin, but it’s the Beginning of the End

Wagner Group leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s march on Moscow did not topple Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the revolt put forces in motion that [...] More

Separating OSINT from the Secret World Strengthens Both

OPINION — The explosive growth in publicly available information (PAI) spawned by the revolution in information technology has led a growing number [...] More

Elections Protect a messy, but better Alternative

OPINION – On the eve of the US midterm elections, it is a good time to reflect on cyber threats to our political process, particularly from foreign [...] More

Putin's Next Strike may not be Nuclear

OPINION — In a performance worthy of Joseph Goebbels, Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the formal annexation of occupied portions of eastern Ukraine [...] More