Eligible Receiver 97: Seminal DOD Cyber Exercise Included Mock Terror Strikes...
Eligible Receiver 97 was my introduction to Information Operations and cyber. </end editorial> Washington, D.C., August 1, 2018 – An early classified Defense Department cybersecurity exercise...
View ArticleHow About Some Apolitical Football?
Are you ready for some football, a Monday night party! – Hank Williams Jr. Three years playing Pop Warner. Four years playing high school football. Four years of college gridiron. Several years of...
View ArticleWhy Facebook’s New Troll Find Is Scary
I spoke with a Bloomberg reporter on Tuesday about this issue. Russian trolls are learning from their past mistakes and hiding the origin of pages and domains they use to spread their fake news,...
View ArticleFacebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts
I am amazed that the NY Times has picked up on this new alleged Russian influence campaign so quickly. Quite literally, I am amazed. I noticed a surge starting on 23 July and started warning...
View ArticleMV-Lehti On Trial In Finland For Targeting Jessikka Aro
A Russian sponsored Neo-Nazi Finnish hate group, MV, has been targeting Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro for many years now. I picked up on it in 2015, after reading and reviewing an article she wrote....
View ArticlePutin’s Secret Police Prevent 2 Million From Leaving Russia
By Anna Nemtsova MOSCOW — Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, is preventing millions of Russians from going abroad. Its own officers have been told “nevyezdnye” (no foreign travel), and earlier...
View ArticleBipartisan group of senators pushes to sanction Russia over midterm meddling
A bipartisan group of Senators is pushing a tough group of sanctions against Russia, for their ongoing interference in midterm elections. This sends a clear message to Russia. </end editorial>...
View ArticleRussian Journalists Murdered in Africa — What Russia Does Not Say
In Russia, Private Military Companies (PMC) are illegal. It is widely known, however, that the Wagner PMC openly operates in support of the Russian government. Wagner often supplements and compliments...
View ArticleOnline Flight Tracking Provides Interesting Details About U.S. Spyplane and...
This Aviationist article is a very illustrative report showing US and Russian Signals Intelligence aircraft at work around Crimea. Notice Russia is flying out of Sochi. Notice the Tu-214SR does not...
View ArticleUkraine Ad Hoc Media Update (26)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Through July Russian raids into Donbass grey zone result in 31 KIA and 68 WIA Russian / proxy force losses. Russian...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Ad Hoc Media Update (42)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> By far developments inside Russia are most interesting – while Russia tries its best to destabilize the West, its internal...
View ArticleIran Ad Hoc Update – Persian Spring (7)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> The Tehran regime appears determined to bring Armageddon upon itself – and the only explanation that makes any kind of...
View ArticleSalisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (115)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia gets a major dose of “Helsinki blowback”, while its propagandists play the Salisbury game over the murder of the...
View ArticleRussia’s New PMC Patriot: The Kremlin’s Bid for a Greater Role in Africa?
This Jamestown Eurasia Daily Monitor report is downright concerning. Private Military Companies, PMCs, are currently technically illegal in Russia, but this report lists where they have been used...
View ArticleRussian Jamming Poses a Growing Threat to U.S. Troops in Syria – Foreign Policy
But this type of warfare also gives the United States a chance to learn about the latest Russian technology. Lara Seligman July 30, 2018, 10:30 AM American troops deployed in Syria are increasingly...
View ArticleRussia’s Strategy of Destabilization in Montenegro
Case study how Russia attempted and failed to destabilize Montenegro. </end editorial> Russian influence in Montenegro: disinformation, threats and attempted regime change By EU vs Disinfo A...
View ArticleUkraine Hits Back – Putin’s Invasion Army Flounders In Donbas
A few key points from this article. Ukraine has reorganized. The military is in charge of defending against Putin, not the SBU. Ukraine has sufficient artillery as to provide effective counter-battery...
View ArticleSoldier arrested in Ukraine for joining Russian Armed Forces during the...
An unnamed soldier was arrested by the SBU for defecting from the Ukraine Army to serve in the Russian Army, then returning to Ukraine. </end editorial> Saturday, August 4, 2018 5:00:31 PM A...
View ArticleRussia used lessons from Georgia war in Ukraine conflict
Russia fielded proposals in 2008, following the Russian invasion of South Ossetia. In Russia’s eyes, it won the military war but lost the information war. Igor Panarin, among others, proposed an...
View ArticleSteven Seagal Appointed “Special Representative” for Russian-American...
Steven Seagal has been appointed “special representative” for Russian-American humanitarian relations. The report, below, was posted by Russian propaganda expert Igor Panarin on Facebook, today. New...
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