Strategic Environment
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Refining the Supply Stream: Where does America wish to be?
Reading Chris Miller’s Chip Wars and Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Starry Messenger in any temporal proximity causes the reader to ask whether the world is accurately predicting the next technological offset. As tensions continually mount in South East Asia, concerns about the People’s Republic of China conducting a military takeover of Taiwan cause many to wonder…
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Disinformation 2014: Putin’s War on the Truth
The Second Chechen war taught the Russian Federation the importance of controlling the media narrative. President Boris Yeltsin permitted news outlets free reign in the first Chechen war. Their reports of Russia Army tactical failures and human rights violations sapped public support for the war. His successor, Vladimir Putin, did not tolerate such media freedom…
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The Russian Approach to Information War
Cyberspace provided Russia with new tools that it could incorporate into its existing political warfare doctrine. The Soviet Union used political warfare to subject target populations into a sense of constant political, economic, and/or security instability. The USSR used these techniques against both its domestic population and its Western adversaries during the cold war. Russia…
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