Russian Security

This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace.

Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only conducts internal security but also has primacy in intelligence operations in former Soviet states.

When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do to get them was make history by drafting them and then figure out how to get them out of the Soviet Union.

The Russians were playing Donald Trump and his allies long before the 2016 election - and continue to do so to this day. That much, and more, is made clear in this masterfully narrated audiobook.

"Frejlina korolevskoj bezopasnosti" - fantasticheskij roman Molki Lazarevoj, zhanr ljubovnoe fjentezi. Kogda vas vtjagivajut v chuzhie intrigi i politicheskie igry, sdelajte vse, chtoby pomeshat' svoim vragam. V jetom nelegkom dele ljubye sredstva horoshi. Dazhe esli pridetsja podzhech' korolevskij sad i sprjatat'sja pod krovat'ju Ee Velichestva. A uzh radi spasenija zhizni mozhno i karetu s konjami na skaku ostanovit', i v razrushennyj dvorec vojti.

Volume 1 from the five-volume Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. This document focuses on Russian efforts to attack US election infrastructure and explains security concerns with various US voting machines, the ability for DHS to provide support to the states, and scenarios for potential disruption to future elections. To help with the listening experience, it provides a description of the amount of redacted material within the document.