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

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

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

OPINION — 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. [...] More

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Conservatives of America: Putin Is Not Your Ally

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

America, Ukraine and the Illusion of an Isolationist Choice

OPINION — In 2022 Russia launched its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, a big and bloody war between the two largest countries in Europe with [...] 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

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