Russia’s Evolving Electronic Warfare Capability: Unlocking Asymmetric Potential
Pre-suasion: How the PRC Controls the Message on a Sino-US Trade War
Can Airstrikes Alone Tackle Islamic State in Libya?
Lithuanian Social Resilience in the Face of Russia’s Unconventional Hostility
The Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defense published its annual report, the “National Threat Assessment 2018,” on March 26 (Vsd.lt, March 26). This year, Lithuania is celebrating its centenary of independence. And... MORE
Moscow Using Serbs Against Bosnia as It Did Ethnic Russians Against Ukraine
Many Western analysts have focused on the ways Moscow is seeking to use ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet republics to expand the Kremlin’s influence—both by actually destabilizing these countries or simply raising... MORE
War, Business and ‘Hybrid’ Warfare: The Case of the Wagner Private Military Company (Part One)
On March 27, the Russian government watered down the Duma bill proposing to legalize Private Military Companies (Chastnye Voennie Company—PMC) (Interfax, March 27). The parliamentary initiative was unanimously rejected by the Ministry of Defense (MoD),... MORE
Russian Propaganda Pushes Back Against Western Airstrike on Syria’s Chemical Weapons Program
The April 14 coordinated missile attack by the United States, the United Kingdom and France, targeting Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons facilities, has been met in Moscow with a bout of acute anti-US anger mixed with... MORE
Russia’s Shipbuilding Program: Postponed Blue-Water Ambitions
Russia’s shipbuilding program for 2011–2020, under which the country plans to build over 100 new warships (Military Paritet, February 7, 2012), is reportedly causing “a very bad feeling” among some Russian naval experts (Topwar.ru, August... MORE
Toward a More Perfect Alliance: Russo-Chinese Ministerials in Moscow
Though most Western scholars do not believe that a real Russo-Chinese alliance actually exists, the arguments of Russian experts and the results of the recent bilateral ministerial meetings of the two countries’ foreign and defense... MORE
Abkhazia and South Ossetia Reject Georgia’s Peace Plan
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili recently announced an “unprecedented” peace initiative aimed at the country’s occupied territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region (South Ossetia). The new initiative, made public during an April 4 cabinet meeting, is... MORE
Amidst ‘Chemical’ Confrontation in Syria, Russia Looks for US Biological Weapons in Former Soviet Republics
On April 12—on the eve of the United States’ and its allies’ airstrikes against Syria in response to the recent chemical attack in Douma—Russian foreign ministry press secretary Maria Zakharova stated that the US, through... MORE
Moscow Tilts Toward POLISARIO, Against Morocco and Europe
Russia is continuing to shift away from its earlier support of the government of Morocco toward the Polisario Front (Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro—POLISARIO), which is challenging Rabat... MORE