This is not your grandfather’s KGB
By David Ignatius Columnist July 26 at 7:37 PM Looking at Russia’s competing spy services, their overlapping operations against the United States and their sometimes careless tradecraft, some CIA...
View ArticleNew Russian Fake News Site Pops Up: The NY Evening
The 2018 US midterm election is hereby in session. More Russian fake news sites are popping up. The quote is fake, it is old (2017 allegations), and let’s take a look at the source. The NY Evening...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (111)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russians playing more creatively in the Salisbury/Amesbury propaganda campaign. Kirillova profiles Russia’s assassination...
View ArticleStrategy / History / Capability Ad Hoc Update (18)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. I’m really curious if the new Russian videos on their new hypersonic weapons are real and truly successfully tested. </end editorial> Much...
View ArticleUkraine Ad Hoc Media Update (25)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> A very busy week in Ukraine, with a major religious event this weekend, and the Independence Day parade approaching, while...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Ad Hoc Media Update (41)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> NATO / EU / Russia Reports RAF fighters scramble on alert due to Russian bomber over Black Sea – 112.international Two NATO...
View ArticleFinland : Pro-Kremlin activists on trial in Finland for harassing reporter
Full disclosure, I consider Jessikka Aro a friend. Jessikka is, without a doubt, one of the most courageous people I have ever met. This whole thing started for me when I reviewed an article she...
View ArticleCongress Urges Cyber Ops Against Russia, Others
In my opinion, there are two primary ways to view this step. First, this is an important first step in stopping Russia from interfering in our election, messing with our infrastructure, stealing...
View ArticleWhere do information operations fit in the DoD cyber enterprise?
The old discussion of Information versus Cyber in military Information Operations has been a discussion since the inception of IO in the 1990s. The Army even made the de facto move to subordinate IO...
View ArticleHow Russia Blew the Celebrations of 1030th anniversary of Baptism of Kievan Rus
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Since 2014 the Russian Federation has used its 325-year-old, and as Constantinople states, unlawful, dominance over the...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (112)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Watch the Dugin video and listen to his words. He is absolutely convinced the Russian truth is believable. Quite honestly it often seems like a...
View ArticleMH370 Update
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> No surprises here. Ministry of Transport Malaysia No answers in new report on flight MH370’s disappearance | TheHill An...
View ArticleFake News Update
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting This past weekend I was inundated with fake news, from all sides. Almost immediately I had the same dread and anger that I had in 2016. No matter...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (113)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> While Russia self-destabilizes, in no small part the result of over-indulgence in Dugin’s “Russian truth”, blowback from...
View ArticleCrimean Bridge Reportedly Near Collapse
According to Rambler.ru, the newly complete Crimean Bridge aka the Kerch Straits Bridge, is in imminent danger of collapse. The bridge cannot withstand the car load, staggers and shakes. According to...
View ArticleSecuring Democracy Dispatch
July 30, 2018 News and Commentary U.S. lawmakers push for more sanctions against Russia: Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) announced their push for additional sanctions against...
View ArticleWeaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds
July 30, 2018 Richard Forno Senior Lecturer, Cybersecurity & Internet Researcher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Russian attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the...
View ArticlePutin Approves ‘Political Commissars’ Reminiscent Of Soviets
On 30 July 2018, Russian President Putin signed papers creating “Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation – Chief of the Main Military-Political...
View ArticleWhen Russian Trolls Attack
If American women think they are oppressed, this is a must-read story. Russian trolls are exceedingly cruel, nasty, mean, and vicious. It seems to be a pathological drive, a need to exceed the...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (114)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia’s abyssal descent continues. That favorite Soviet indulgence, the Zampolit, to be reintroduced to the Russian...
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