Russia / Strategy Media Update (329) – 8 September 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Amb Volker meets Surkov, Amb Hunt comments on relations. Bomb hoax pandemic continues in Russia. Major protests across...
View ArticleBaghdad Ten Years Ago – 07 OCT 17
WEEK 47: Mission Impossible Deuce “Right now I’ll bet you one of those metaphorical beers that if we polled ten soldiers across the division what the mission is we would get ten different answers.” –...
View ArticleWaPo: Google discovers Russian-bought ads
Google has discovered it sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of online ads to Russian-linked actors trying to influence the 2016 presidential election, according to the Washington Post. The Post...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Media Update (330) – 9 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Due to changes, today, at the Ukraine Ministry of Defense, today’s ATO Map and Situation Brief are not available. We are seeking their new...
View ArticleU.S. Army Outlines New Approach to Shifting Battlefields
I am alarmed when I read that the US Army wants to update its doctrine to include “space, cyberspace and traditional combat”. Unless explicitly stated, it appears the Army may overlook information as...
View ArticleThe Morning Vertical – 09.10.2017
THE MORNING VERTICAL by Brian Whitmore 09.10.2017 On My Mind: The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is widely viewed as an ineffectual organization and its summits tend to be dull affairs....
View ArticleFBI uses PureVPN’s ‘non-existent’ logs to track down internet stalker
Which leads me to ask, are there any secure VPNs out there that really don’t keep logs? What does this mean to the Circumvention Technology folks? Does this mean that there is no actual or real...
View ArticleRussian propaganda engaged U.S. vets, troops on Twitter and Facebook, study...
I have exposed VeteranNewsNow and VeteransToday on multiple occasions as fraudulent and probably a Russian front, this confirms my suspicion. I worked with a reporter several months ago, before the...
View ArticleHow Russia Targets the U.S. Military
Full disclosure, here is the article in which I worked with the author. </end editorial> With hacks, pro-Putin trolls and fake news, the Kremlin is ratcheting up its efforts to turn American...
View ArticleNeed An Alibi Or Need Illegal Intelligence? Have These Guys Got A Deal For You
Seldom have I had the stuffings scared out of me by something which appears so sinister, right out of a Spectre role in a James Bond film. Seriously, if these guys do not remind you of the former KGB,...
View ArticleHacked? “Turkey suddenly backpedals on its alliance with Russia”
Choke on Coffee Warning applies. Everything about this article in Pravda is wrong, Turkey suddenly backpedals on its alliance with Russia. The article was published at 17:32 local time, here in...
View ArticleGoogle Identifies Russia-backed Ads on YouTube, Gmail
We have Russian ads on Facebook, taken out by fake Twitter accounts linked to the Russian troll farm. We now can ad Google’s YouTube, Gmail and Google Search. Twitter, Facebook, and Google are being...
View ArticleHow Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI OCT. 9, 2017 YouTube videos of police beatings on American streets. A widely circulated internet hoax about Muslim men in Michigan collecting welfare for...
View ArticleBaltics battle Russia in online disinformation war
Date 08.10.2017 Author Benas Gerdziunas (Lithuania) From the hacking attack on Estonia in 2007 to the fake news targeting the NATO battalions on the alliance’s eastern border in 2017 — the Baltic...
View ArticlePutin Burger With Lies, Please
An international beef sizzled over the weekend after social media grilled a fake Russian report about a New York restaurant honoring President Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday with a special hamburger....
View ArticleMILNEWS.ca Highlights – October 10, 2017
Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight #CANvsISIL “Canadian special-forces team hunts down and dismantles chemical weapons in Iraq” “Le Canada a accueilli 800 réfugiés yézidis d’Irak” The Kurds...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Media Update (331) – 10 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. The only ATO map available now is no longer in English. </end editorial> Some apt observations by AUSA panel members on Russia. Nice WSJ...
View ArticleThe confrontation that fueled the fallout between Kaspersky and the U.S....
We have tiptoed around this beast known as Kaspersky for years. Once again, the Russian tactic defaults to “prove it”. As in almost every Russian action where they are caught and respond with “prove...
View ArticleHow To Make Everybody Angry – Czech President Zeman
Here is the title of the RT article, Russia could ‘compensate’ Ukraine for Crimea with money or oil – Czech president Here are the three key paragraphs: Ukraine’s representatives staged a walkout after...
View ArticleMILNEWS.ca Highlights – October 12, 2017
Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight #CANvsISIL DND’s latest on Operation IMPACT “Map: Hawija District Entirely Cleared from IS” “Abadi expects ‘complete defeat’ of IS this year as Hawija is liberated”...
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