CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government. The U.S. has launched a new digital offensive against Russia. A New York Times report reveals that the U.S. has allegedly launched cyber-intrusions into Russia’s power grid. Are we witnessing the start of a digital “cold war”? Could…
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/02/us-drifting-toward-war-nato-ally/145979/ Putin’s unchecked courtship of Erdoğan increases the risks associated with any military response to Assad’s war crimes, continued Turkish aggression, or Iranian entrenchment in Syria. The U.S. and NATO should take Turkey to task for any actions that are detrimental to NATO’s mutual defense goals. Concurrently, Turkey must be…
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7539-turkey-nato-1192018 CERL is pleased to present its most recent briefing paper, “Turkey’s Eastern Pivot: A Challenge for NATO and a Threat to US National Security”. This latest effort further develops CERL’s work discussing threats to democratic governance in light of Russia’s attempts to interfere with elections in democratic nations around…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/world/europe/russia-america-military-exercise-trump-putin.html “A 10-day exercise in July offered a window into how Army commanders are rehearsing updated tactics and strategies once used to counter Soviet troops.” For more on the Saber Guardian exercise: http://www.eur.army.mil/saberguardian/
This event will be webcast beginning at 12:30pm ET on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Please click here to watch the live stream at that time: https://pennlaw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=e2128eb1-0b5b-4022-beac-3814d7edf130 https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/foreigninterference/ The discovery of widespread attempts to influence the 2016 Presidential election in the U.S. on the part of the Russians has sent shockwaves…
http://mwi.usma.edu/russian-ukrainian-war-understanding-dust-clouds-battlefield/ Amos C. Fox | January 17, 2017 | Commentary & Analysis “Russian aggression in Ukraine has been interpreted as the harbinger of a new era of warfare, one in which cyber threats, hybrid tactics, and gray-zone operations are ascendant. But there are lessons to be learned in the conventional…
I https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR_16-20296.pdf “Today, I have ordered a number of actions in response to the Russian government’s aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election. These actions follow repeated private and public warnings that we have issued to the Russian government, and are a necessary and appropriate…
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-hack.html “When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country. We reserve the right to use all necessary means — diplomatic, informational, military, and economic — as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to…
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) defines gray zone challenges as “competitive interactions among and within state and non-state actors that fall between the traditional war and peace duality.” In the words of GEN Joe Votel et. al., “[t]he Gray Zone is characterized by intense political, economic, informational, and…
