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Our Deeply Flawed US National Strategies
Below are the extracts from the latest ‘comprehensive strategy‘ written by the Heritage Foundation from 2015, I have extracted two sub-strategies: the one for Russian Propaganda and the one for...
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Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy Has a Significant Role in...
Diplomacy has a significant role in cyberspace alongside the intelligence agencies, ministries and law enforcement structures, highlighted Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Meleșcanu during a...
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Underwater, ‘Swimming’ Bullets Could Be Next Step In Global Weapons, Warfare
Seeing as the calibers listed are NATO standard, seeing as this is a Norwegian firm, and seeing as Russia has provoked the West consistently and constantly, I would make a bet this firm will never sell...
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Is the US Strike in Syria Putin’s ‘Matthias Rust’ Moment?
I was living in West Germany when Matthias Rust flew his tiny plane across East German and Soviet airspace and landed in Red Square. It was a slap in the face to Gorbachev that reverberated around the...
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You Can Hack Propaganda Like a CIA Analyst: Richards Heuer Describes the...
April 7, 2017 By Toamatapu 6 min read Reading Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards Heuer (1999) In this final piece covering Heuer’s seminal work on intelligence analysis, Myth Composer is...
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20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And...
Shahida Arabi JUNE 30, 2016 Toxic people such as malignant narcissists, psychopaths and those with antisocial traits engage in maladaptive behaviors in relationships that ultimately exploit, demean and...
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The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru
I missed this article when it was originally published. The last Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Ben Rhodes, by his own admission in this article, lied to the American...
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Can NATO Weaponize Memes?
This article is excellent in that it shows someone actually said, “create a viral video”. This exposes the naivete and Luddite nature of many people in charge. This article sucks because it asks a...
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VOA Urdu Launches New Television Show in Pakistan
WASHINGTON D.C., April 14, 2017 — View360, a daily news magazine show for Pakistan produced by Voice of America’s Urdu language service, debuts April 17, 2017. The Urdu language program will provide...
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Russian Language Use in Former Soviet Space Declining Precipitously
Recall in 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea, one of the reasons given was for the defense of the Russian language? Will Russia translate this into a perceived loss of influence? Will Russia promote...
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Voxtribune – Fake News
Somebody pointed out some fake news today, about the MOAB drop in Afghanistan. It showed handheld footage of what was supposed to be the MOAB explosion. I reposted on Facebook it but did a search and...
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Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 15 Apr 07
WEEK 22: Again, the irony of recent events with the history of a mere decade past. Is it fake news or just lazy or one-sided news? Often, just lazy or one-sided. Amateur Hour “We got the bubble headed...
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How The Kremlin Uses Russia’s Criminal Networks In Europe
How The Kremlin Uses Russia’s Criminal Networks In Europe By By Mark Galeotti Everything you wanted to know about Russian mafia in Europe. Just a couple of highlights to prove that this report is worth...
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Putin’s Party, United Russia, Plays Seriously Dirty
I discovered that Russian Federation President Putin’s political party, United Russia, is playing dirty political games and pulling out all the stops in their quest to stop opposition candidate,...
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Social Media—The Vital Ground: Can We Hold It?
Authored by Ian Tunnicliffe, Dr. Steve Tatham. Added April 21, 2017 Type: Monograph 53 Pages Download Format: PDF Cost: Free Brief Synopsis View the Executive Summary The impact of social media on the...
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New RAND Work: Dominating Duffer’s Domain: Lessons for the U.S. Army...
Dominating Duffer’s Domain Lessons for the U.S. Army Information Operations Practitioner Christopher Paul, William Marcellino DOWNLOAD THE REPORT ORDER A FREE HARD COPY More than a century after its...
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Renewal of the Charter for the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
Media Note Washington, DC April 20, 2017 The Department of State has renewed the Charter for the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. The bipartisan Commission appraises U.S. government...
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US International Broadcasting Needs Deep Reform. Here’s What Trump Should...
Helle Dale / @Helledale / April 19, 2017 / Appointing a new CEO to head U.S. international broadcasting is one of the many tasks on the list for the Trump White House. In part thanks to the snail-paced...
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How the Pentagon Plans to Beat Russia and China’s Air Defenses in a War
Sebastien Roblin April 21, 2017 U.S. warplanes flying over Syria today find themselves operating within the range of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles. While the U.S. military is unlikely to...
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Army releases new cyber, EW field manual
By: Mark Pomerleau, April 21, 2017 (Photo Credit: Army) The Army is getting up-to-date on cyber and electromagnetic activity policies, finally releasing the long-anticipated updated field manual for...
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