Renee Pruneau Novakoff
Former Deputy Director of Intelligence for Sensitive Activities and Special Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Renee Pruneau Novakoff served for over forty years in the Department of Defense and in several Intelligence agencies to include NSA, CIA, ODNI, and DIA. Her last assignment was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, providing oversight and guidance for the Defense Department’s special programs and sensitive activities to include Human intelligence and Information Operations.
My friends and family often ask me why Russia behaves so offensively. They are baffled by Russia’s lack of humanity and Moscow’s actions such as hiring assassins, launching drones at innocents, and [...] More
Understanding a country's strategic culture helps assess how it will react to crisis, negotiation, and national security events. Strategic culture generally is static and when it evolves, it happens [...] More


