U.S. Army Accuses Russia of Lying About War Game Troop Numbers

With the Zapad 2017 military exercise, Russia “overplayed their hand” and the country’s “credibility is in tatters,” U.S. Army Europe commander Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said Thursday.

“Nobody considers them the masters of the information space, which maybe a year ago everybody was talking about how great and clever they were. Now nobody believes anything they have to say,” he told the CEPA Forum 2017 in Washington, D.C.

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