Russian Active Measures In Germany And The United States: Analog Lessons From The Cold War

September 30, 2017, 5:45 am

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LAURA DANIELS SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 Leaking damaging documents during election season, feeding the media false stories about candidates, and concocting conspiracy theories to smear politicians: this will sound familiar to anyone who followed the U.S. presidential election, and to an extent, recent campaigns in France and Germany. But these methods are not new. In fact, the… Continue reading Russian Active Measures In Germany And The United States: Analog Lessons From The Cold War

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A Perpetual Conflict of Ideas?

September 30, 2017, 5:59 am

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#WritingContest2017 Miah Hammond-Errey  September 28, 2017 Source: https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/9/28/a-perpetual-conflict-of-ideas Earlier this year, The Strategy Bridge asked university and professional military education students to participate in our first annual writing contest by sending us their thoughts on strategy. Now, we are pleased to present one of the essays tied for third place, from Miah Hammond-Errey of the Australian National University. ARE… Continue reading A Perpetual Conflict of Ideas?

How to tackle Russia’s propaganda machinery

September 30, 2017, 6:39 am

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An excellent base document on how to counter Russian information warfare.  As Nina says in a tweet on 25 September,  Let’s think seriously about why RT, Sputnik & fake news resonate with so many people in the first place. Ms. Jankowicz is absolutely spot on when she says, Finally, under no circumstances should the US… Continue reading How to tackle Russia’s propaganda machinery

Russian Razzie Awards – Top 10 Pro-Russian Individuals and Organizations

September 30, 2017, 8:23 am

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Individuals The following individuals have done the most to deny the truth about Russia and project a uniquely positive image about Russia to the world. This is usually accomplished with lies, whataboutisms, deception, and deceit, all packaged up in a nice, neat coordinated propaganda message.  If you want it bad, they’ll give it bad, they… Continue reading Russian Razzie Awards – Top 10 Pro-Russian Individuals and Organizations

A Fake Antifa Account Was ‘Busted’ for Tweeting from Russia

September 30, 2017, 8:28 am

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A screencapped tweet​ praising gender inclusivity in the NFL and “gluten free options at stadiums” was geo-tagged from Vladivostok, Russia. BECKETT MUFSON Sep 28 2017, 1:25pm The uptick in fake Antifa accounts claiming to belong to the current anti-fascist movement can be a minefield for internet explorers looking for a safe place to talk about punching Nazis and resisting… Continue reading A Fake Antifa Account Was ‘Busted’ for Tweeting from Russia

Putin Complains Russian Media Face Unacceptable Pressure Abroad

September 30, 2017, 9:20 am

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Russia complains when it is allowed to broadcast from inside another country, but does not allow others to broadcast in Russia.  Putin gave no specifics. Perhaps Russia and Putin are feeling pressure as a result of ‘not playing nicely with others’? Is the petulant child, the playground bully, crying? </end editorial> SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 /… Continue reading Putin Complains Russian Media Face Unacceptable Pressure Abroad

Political censorship in Russian comedy shows

September 30, 2017, 9:47 am

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29 September 2017 Satire and comedy are universal ways of overcoming tensions in any society. Kings and queens have always had to live with being made fun of – they might even have learned something from seeing themselves and their power mirrored in the jokes of their fools and jesters. In modern Russia, however, it’s a… Continue reading Political censorship in Russian comedy shows

DoD can’t compete with near-peer adversaries at a level ‘below war’

September 30, 2017, 11:05 am

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By David Thornton September 29, 2017 11:55 am    The United States may have superiority in most domains — sea, land, air, space — but it lacks the kind of whole-of-government integration currently allowing near-peer adversaries to excel at a level of “adversarial competition” that falls short of the definition of war. That’s what Chairman of the… Continue reading DoD can’t compete with near-peer adversaries at a level ‘below war’

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Russia / Strategy Media Update (321) – 30 September 2017

September 30, 2017, 11:21 am

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Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Congress pressuring Administration to act on lethal aid for Ukraine and Russia sanctions. Diaspora lobbies Canadian Govt to take lead in UN Donbass peacekeeping mission. Russians objecting to UN peacekeepers and lethal aid for Ukraine. Russian objections to BMD – is it that Russia has less confidence… Continue reading Russia / Strategy Media Update (321) – 30 September 2017

Counter-Russian Top Ten

September 30, 2017, 11:49 am

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This is partially in response to the RT list, Russophobia: RT rates the top 10 Kremlin critics & their hilarious hate campaigns, which was more snarky than factual.  After 1,312 days since the Russian Security Council met and decided to invade Crimea, it is time to name those people and organizations who have risen to… Continue reading Counter-Russian Top Ten

RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War

September 30, 2017, 1:36 pm

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How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weaponsof the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop. By JIM RUTENBERGSEPT. 13, 2017 One morning in January 2016, Martin Steltner showed up at his office in the state courthouse building in western Berlin. Steltner, who has served for more than a… Continue reading RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War

MILNEWS.ca #UKR + Eastern Europe Update as of 302200UTC September 2017

September 30, 2017, 8:23 pm

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Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight #Ukraine UN Peacekeeping Latest  “Ukrainian Canadian community wants Canada to lead U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ukraine” – “Poroshenko: UN mission deployment on demarcation line in Donbass unacceptable” – “Russia’s initiative on protecting SMM OSCE in the south-east of Ukraine” (RUS envoy to GBR op-ed, media op-ed) “Chief of General Staff Muzhenko to visit U.S.… Continue reading MILNEWS.ca #UKR + Eastern Europe Update as of 302200UTC September 2017

Russia / Strategy Media Update (322) – 1 October 2017

October 1, 2017, 9:08 am

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Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Special note, read US military aid to Ukraine: opponents only catching panic – LB.ua news portal.  It contains analysis of Russia’s information strategy. </end editorial> Russian propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to convince POTUS not to supply Ukraine with lethal aid is detailed by LB.ua in a very long essay… Continue reading Russia / Strategy Media Update (322) – 1 October 2017

Russia’s Covets America’s Alaska

October 1, 2017, 6:49 pm

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For at least the past ten years I have read Russian demands for the return of Alaska. I could never understand their logic. Today, Igor Panarin posted a link on Facebook to a story, Does Russia Have A Chance For The Return Of Alaska? In it there is one coherent paragraph, The transfer of 1… Continue reading Russia’s Covets America’s Alaska

Can Video Bloggers Defeat Putin’s Propaganda Television?

October 2, 2017, 2:14 am

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BY MAXIM TRUDOLYUBOV ON 10/1/17 AT 11:02 AM This article appeared on the Wilson Center site. Most Russians live in an information universe that is utterly peculiar and starkly different from most others. Russia’s state-run television commands immense power over Russian minds and most Russians apparently like it. Television would not be that important if people didn’t… Continue reading Can Video Bloggers Defeat Putin’s Propaganda Television?

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Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 30 Sep 07

October 2, 2017, 4:36 am

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WEEK 46: Time to relook the Mission Branding concept and tagline. King of Beers “Here comes the King, here come the big number one. Budweiser King of Beers is second to none.”  – Anheuser Busch ditty The other day, I was humming this tune as I was in my boss’s office nuking my Doma –… Continue reading Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 30 Sep 07

The Morning Vertical — October 3, 2017

October 3, 2017, 6:42 am

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THE MORNING  VERTICAL by Brian Whitmore  03.10.2017 On My Mind   As the international community seeks to contain North Korea, Russia continues its efforts to assist the regime of Kim Jong Un. According to a report by the research group 38 North (featured below), a Russian state-owned telecommunications company is providing Pyongyang with a lifeline… Continue reading The Morning Vertical — October 3, 2017

MILNEWS.ca Highlights – October 3, 2017

October 3, 2017, 6:44 am

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Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight September 2017 Edmonton Terror Attack “Man charged with five counts of attempted murder for Edmonton attacks” – “Attaque à Edmonton: pas de poursuite à ce stade pour «terrorisme» “ – “… Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Sharif crossed legally into Canada in 2012 at a regular border crossing and obtained refugee… Continue reading MILNEWS.ca Highlights – October 3, 2017

North Korea’s internet revealed to have just 28 websites

October 3, 2017, 7:13 am

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Cara McGoogan 21 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 12:33PM The full scope of North Korea’s private internet has been revealed after the country accidentally gave people outside of the country brief access to it. The government-controlled internet is a lot smaller than was initially believed, containing just 28 websites in total, including an insurance company, sports website and site containing culinary information and… Continue reading North Korea’s internet revealed to have just 28 websites

Russia / Strategy Media Update (324) – 3 October 2017

October 3, 2017, 8:56 am

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Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> More on Zapad 2017 and the “military Schengen” proposal. Whitmore on the failure of Putin’s policy in post-Soviet republics. Gessen chapter on the long term collateral damage done by Soviet totalitarianism. Multiple reports on internal problems in the Russian military, especially Russian concerns about  “the moral-psychological state” of the officers and… Continue reading Russia / Strategy Media Update (324) – 3 October 2017