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The Grand Cyber Spy Game: Russia, America, and China Stealing the World One Byte at a Time
Dr. Matthew Crosston & Anonymous(*) Every month another story of cybertheft linked to China or Russia emerges. Recent data breaches at Target, United Airlines,...
The Mighty Have Fallen: American Space Dependency on Russia
The space program that gave the United States much-deserved global recognition is looking very different today. Somewhat embarrassingly, the United States relies on the...
Piercing the shield: A leaner and meaner Russia beyond nuclear strategies
Authors: Dr. Matthew Crosston & Troy Baxter Russia’s history as a nuclear state is extensive and well-documented. It was the second country in the...
Playing Chess, Not Checkers: Russian Responses to U.S. Hegemony in Kind
Few would argue that Russia’s recent display of military assertiveness, in both its hybrid confrontation in Ukraine and recent intervention in Syria, is antithetical...
Natural Gas – A Game Changer for European Geopolitics
In 1945, Europe became bifurcated along two ideological camps; communism and capitalism. As the iron curtain-shrouded Europe, the geopolitical divide was defined. Nowhere was...
The ISIS psychological warfare and the attack against the EgyptAir plane
So far Al Baghdadi’s Caliphate has been very successful in using the techniques of psychological warfare. From professional footage and commercials of its ferocious...
FSB’s Snowden War:Using the American NSA against Itself
Russia's understanding of information warfare must be understood in the context of Russian statism. Russian leaders, particularly President Vladimir Putin, view state power as...
The United States in Syria
So far the United States and their coalition have conducted 12,199 aerial bombing operations in Syria and Iraq - exactly 8,322 in Iraq and...
The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond
Research on the insurgency and the appearance of local jihadist groups within the North Caucasus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union has been...
Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh: An unlikely and unwanted scenario
The April shootouts in Nagorno-Karabakh that took dozens of lives from each side signaled to the world community that the conflict around the above-mentioned...