Canada Expands Training Mission in Ukraine
The Canadians have confirmed that they will be sending 200+ troop trainers to Ukraine in a non-combat role to assist the Ukrainian defensive effort.
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Putin’s Hidden Influence Agents in ISIS (Pt. 3): Information Operations and Reflexive Control
We don’t know if Russian intelligence has a hand in ISIS propaganda. But we should start to wonder.
Putin’s Hidden Influence Agents in ISIS (Pt. 2): Russia Shapes the Syrian Battlefield
Syria is Russia’s only real foothold in the Middle East, a country in which they wish to project themselves into the rest of the region.
Dagestan: Russians Target Islamic Terrorists
On March 21 in Dagestan, Russian police forces effectively sealed off an entire block in the capital city of Makhachkala sometime in the early morning hours and proceeded to carry out an intense mission to root out suspected Islamist militants in an apartment complex. While reports have varied somewhat and timelines differ from one source […]
Opposition Wisely Acquiesces to Party Wishes in Russia
And the assassination is already being officially blamed on separatists in the caucuses region…
Is SOFREP the Target of Russian Covert Action?
Recent comments on Twitter and on SOFREP.com’s Facebook page have spurred some of us here at the site to wonder if we are experiencing first-hand a Russian covert action program to counter-message what the Russian government sees as articles and opinions hostile to Russian interests. Recent SOFREP articles by Brandon Webb and Eric Jones, for […]
Putin: Champion of Right and Freedom, or KGB Thug?
I’ve been seeing quite a bit of lionization of Vladimir Putin lately, by a lot of the same people who were up in arms last year about Obama’s hot mic comment to Dmitri Medvedev that he’d have “more flexibility” as regards to giving the Russians what they want (re: missile defense for our allies in […]
