Russian Unconventional Strategy
http://www.defensenews.com/article/2...ussia-Doctrine
Arab Leaders Briefed on New Russia Doctrine
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The doctrine holds that the US and its allies are engineering revolutions and uprisings in key areas around the world to destabilize governments and replace existing regimes in order to establish control and exploit natural resources. Furthermore, the doctrine treats the US as a dangerous nation that seeks to dismantle the Russian statehood.
The best propaganda has a grain to truth to it, and we probably do have some activist diplomats encouraging uprisings in some locations. Is it part of a grand strategy by the U.S.? Maybe, but I have my doubts. Nonetheless if Russian theorists believe this it may explain their behavior.
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“The Russians are interpreting US interference in countries like Ukraine and across the Middle East like Egypt, Syria, North Africa and even Venezuela as operations to take their natural wealth and convert their population towards a western leaning oversight,” he said.
“The Russians, by announcing this new doctrine in such clear terms, are announcing their intent to counter this activity [of destabilizing governments by popular uprising] by conducting additional research and analysis, ultimately coming out with counter policies,” he said.
Later in the article they talk about countering our strategy with networks and information.
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“The failure of the West to impose a leadership after these operations is causing chaos and that is what we are seeing today across a number of different countries around the world,” Shoygu told the audience.
If we or anyone is fomenting these uprisings I agree with the above comment.
‘Masterly’ Russian Operations in Ukraine Leave NATO One Step Behind
A short FT article, the full edition is behind a registration "wall", that appears on a NATO website and starts with:
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In more than a dozen interviews, planners, security officials and members of the intelligence community have spoken of Moscow with universal, if grudging, praise.
Tactically, they say, Russia has waged a dexterous and comprehensive campaign, and has been one step ahead at every turn. The Kremlin's operations on the ground have been "masterly", said one.
Rightly the author ends with:
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With that in mind, it is ironic that for all of its accusations against Russia, it is Nato that is looking like it is stuck in the Iron Curtain era, as it tries to fly more planes, exercise more troops and sail more ships ever closer to Russia.
Link:http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...1s4skM.twitter
Putin’s Gordian Knot: The Changing Face of Russian Intervention
Putin’s Gordian Knot: The Changing Face of Russian Intervention
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Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian NonlinearWar Through Modern Chinese Doctrine
Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian NonlinearWar Through Modern Chinese Doctrine
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Despite Early Signs of Russian Buildup in Syria, U.S. Seemed to be Caught Flat-footed
Despite Early Signs of Russian Buildup in Syria, U.S. Seemed to be Caught Flat-footed
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Russian Military Uses Syria as Proving Ground, and West Takes Notice
Russian Military Uses Syria as Proving Ground, and West Takes Notice
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The Return of Wetwork: under Putin?
A "broad brush" commentary by John Schindler, after the murder of Alexander Litvenenko in London ten years ago. Elsewhere on SWC we have a few posts on the apparently "new" Russian use of unconventional warfare (UW), information operations and of course those "little green men". So "wetwork" fits SWC's TOR, even if rather uncomfortable.
The full title and sub-title being:
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The Return of Wetwork: KGB Goons Radiated a Former Associate in London; Putin's Kremlin employs assassination abroad as state policy in a manner not seen in Moscow since Stalin
https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress....80&w=635&h=383
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We should hope that the deaths of Mikhail Lesin and other Russian exiles who got on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin won’t linger in mystery for decades like Walter Krivitsky’s. That the Kremlin murdered Alexander Litvinenko seems certain, while a Russian role in assassinations of several others in the West looks increasingly likely. All that can be said with full confidence at this point is that if Western governments don’t take a hard line with Mr. Putin about his regime’s wetwork, demanding that it cease, Russian secret agents will continue their killing spree in our countries.
Link:http://observer.com/2016/01/the-retu...ate-in-london/
From London a rather wide comment on modern Russia, the headline being:
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Litvinenko’s murder shows why Putin’s Russia will never prosper
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...-putin-russia?
The following two passages appeared yesterday on the Russian intelligence activities.
An interesting account of this Russian FSB defector's death; the sub-title says:
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This week, the inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko will deliver its findings. The former Russian spy was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...P=share_btn_tw
The murder was in October 2006 and only this week did an official inquiry come to an end. This BBC link has more:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35378626