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You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in
you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between
Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But
Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for
decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting
down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking and
murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But
what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this?
And what does it achieve? In this book, Keir Giles explains how and
why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can
reach, far beyond Ukraine - and what it means not just for
governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing together stories
from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power,
organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow conducts its
campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be
caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going
on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies
and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody
shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are
far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve
them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.
At the time of this writing, the events during the 2016
presidential election campaign have focused intense attention on
the dangers of hostile cyber and information operations by foreign
powers. The legality under international law of this kind of
interference in another state s information space has been the
subject of long discussion, both bilaterally between the United
States and other major cyber powers, and internationally at the
United Nations (UN) and elsewhere. In this Letort Paper, completed
in late 2015, British researcher Keir Giles provides a guide to the
various and conflicting trends in this debate. As a long-term
scholar of the Russian approach to cyber policy and legality in
cyberspace, Giles places the discussion, and U.S. concerns, in an
international context. In particular, he explains the deep
ideological divides on the correct course of action to take between
the United States and its allies on the one hand, and a large group
of nations led by Russia and China on the other.
Russia s military interventions in Ukraine from 2014, and Syria
from 2015, caused widespread surprise among Western policy
communities, including in the United States. However, as the
British scholar of Russia, Keir Giles, explains in this Letort
Paper, these interventions represented the culmination of two
well-established trends that had been clearly identified by
Russia-watchers over preceding years. These were first, a mounting
perception of direct threat against Russia from the West, and
second, Russia s own greatly increased capability for military or
other action to respond to this perceived threat. Mr. Giles
highlights the specific security preoccupations of Russian leaders
over decades, not always perceptible outside Russia, which lead
them to entirely different interpretations of current events from
those taken for granted in the West.
In November 2014, tense negotiations over the status of Iran's
nuclear program resulted in a 7-month extension of a compliance
deadline. In June 2015, negotiators will once again be grappling
with the same intractable issues, where neither Iran nor the United
States and its allies appear able to make the substantive
concessions that would be necessary for a permanent agreement. This
monograph, completed ahead of the November 2014 deadline, examines
some of the underlying factors which will be constant in dealing
with Iran under President Hassan Rouhani, and which will help
determine the success or failure of talks in 2015. It surveys
Rouhani's eventful first year in office in order to provide
pointers to what may be possible-and to some key limiting
factors-for Iran under his leadership. During that time, Rouhani
was forced to balance his own progressive instincts with the
instinctual caution of more conservative elements of the Iranian
ruling elite.
In a time of rapid change for the U.S. Army, it is essential to
retain awareness of how potential adversaries are also developing
their concepts of Landpower. This Letort Paper, written by an
influential Russian general, lays out an authoritative view on the
importance of substantial conventional land forces, as seen from
Moscow. The year 2014 was an eventful one for the Russian military,
opening with the seizure of Crimea, continuing through ongoing
operations in and near Ukraine, and culminating with the issue of a
new Military Doctrine reflecting what Russia describes as new
security realities in Europe. All of these circumstances have drawn
attention back to the challenge to U.S. interests posed by the
Russian military. The issue of this Paper is therefore especially
timely. The author, Major General Aleksandr Rogovoy, is a professor
at the Russian General Staff Academy with a substantial record of
academic and operational experience, and a direct contributor to
the drafting of Russia's 2014 Military...
The focus on Russian intervention in Ukraine in 2014-15 has
obscured other areas of contention which previously were prominent
and problematic in relations between the United States and Russia.
One such area is the strenuous Russian objection to U.S. plans for
ballistic missile defense, most recently in the form of the
European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA). At some point in the near
future, the issue of missile defense will once more be on the table
with Russia; whether as a result of a relaxation of tensions
allowing renewed bilateral discussion of security issues, or indeed
because of an immediate threat of Russian escalatory action in
response to the United States rolling out missile defense
capabilities. In either case, U.S. policymakers and negotiators
need to be prepared and fully acquainted with the wide range of
issues at stake. In this respect, both the current monograph and
its predecessor, European Missile Defense and Russia, provide an
essential grounding...
Because of the seamlessly international nature of the Internet,
effective cyber security demands close cooperation with allies and
friends overseas. Yet, because of the relatively young status of
the discipline, national approaches to organizing and providing for
cyber defense vary widely even among those countries whose
interests are most closely aligned with those of the United States.
The result is that the bodies and structures responsible for cyber
defense, and their affiliations and mandates, can be difficult to
understand. In this Letort Paper, British cyber policy researcher
Keir Giles and German computer security specialist Kim Hartmann
provide an overview of four different national approaches to cyber
defense: those of Norway, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden. While
providing a useful guide for engagement with the relevant
governmental and other organizations in each of these countries,
the Paper also compares and contrasts the advantages and drawbacks
of each national approach.
In this timely monograph, British authors Mr. Keir Giles and Dr.
Steve Tatham fuse key lessons from two disparate theaters to argue
persuasively for greater education of Army personnel in human
terrain disciplines. Dr. Tatham, an expert in strategic
communications and influence operations with extensive experience
in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Mr. Giles, a long-term scholar of
Russian military and political decisionmaking processes, both
contribute a wealth of accessible examples and anecdotes to argue
their case for greater investment in human domain skills, both as
an insurance against future conflict and in order to prevail in
that conflict should it be joined. Drawing on a range of sources
across social science and linguistics, they make the crucial point
that both commanders and junior personnel must be not only prepared
but also educated to set aside their cultural, social, and even
linguistic preconceptions in order to accurately assess the options
open to an adversary.
The recent history of the conversation with Russia over plans for
European missile defense has been one of repeated and unsuccessful
attempts to allay strongly worded Russian concerns. None of these
attempts has mitigated Russia's trenchant opposition to U.S. plans.
At times, this opposition can appear based on grounds which are
spurious or incomprehensible. In this monograph, Mr. Keir Giles, a
British academic and long-term scholar of Russia, examines the
history of missile defense, and the current dialogue, from a
Russian perspective in order to explain the root causes of Russian
alarm. He presents specific recommendations for managing the Russia
relationship in the context of missile defense. Important
conclusions are also drawn for the purpose of managing the dialogue
over missile defense plans not only with Russia as an opponent, but
also with European North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies as
partners and hosts.
While conflict in cyberspace is not a new phenomenon, the legality
of hostile cyber activity at a state level remains imperfectly
defined. While there is broad agreement among the United States and
its allies that cyber warfare would be governed by existing law of
armed conflict, with no need for additional treaties or conventions
to regulate hostilities online, this view is not shared by many
nations that the United States could potentially face as
adversaries. A range of foreign states use definitions for cyber
conflict that are entirely different from our own, extending to
different concepts of what constitutes online hostilities and even
a state of war. This leads to a potentially dangerous situation
where an adversary could be operating according to an entirely
different understanding of international law to that followed by
the United States. In this Letort Paper, Mr. Keir Giles uses
Russian-language sources and interviews to illustrate the very
distinct set of views on the nature of conflict...
The questionable performance of the Russian armed forces in the
conflict in Georgia in 2008 provided the impetus for a program of
far-reaching reform in the Russian military. The progress of this
reform has been the subject of intensive study, including in a
number of monographs issued by the Strategic Studies Institute. But
as Mr. Keir Giles and Dr. Andrew Monaghan describe in this Paper,
the most recent phase of military transformation in Russia allows
conclusions to be drawn about the final shape of the Russian
military once the process is complete-and about the range of
threats, some of them unrecognizable to us, that is guiding that
process. In this monograph, the authors use a wide range of Russian
language sources and interviews to illustrate not only the Russian
threat assessments highlighting the United States as a potential
aggressor, but also the many unique challenges facing Russia in
renewing and rearming its military.
An apparent lack of interest by Russia in Sub-Saharan Africa over
recent years masks persistent key strategic drivers for Moscow to
re-establish lost influence in the region. A preoccupation with
more immediate foreign policy concerns has temporarily interrupted
a process of Russia reclaiming relationships that were
well-developed in the Soviet period in order to secure access to
mineral and energy resources which are crucial to Russia's economic
and industrial interests, as well as both existing and new markets
for military arms contracts. Russian policy priorities in Africa
provide both challenges and opportunities for the U.S. nuclear
nonproliferation, as well as energy security for the United States
and its European allies. Russian development of key resources in
southern Africa should be observed closely. Russian trade with the
region is significantly underdeveloped, with the exception of the
arms trade, which Russia can be expected to defend vigorously if
its markets are challenged, including...
From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding
how Russia sees the world and its place in it that the West can
best meet the Russian challenge.Russia and the West are like
neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major
reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think
that Russia should act as a "rational" Western nation even though
Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their
country's much different history and traditions. Russia, through
Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its
leaders from the czars to Putin almost always act in their own very
predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage
with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at
the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent
crises. Keir Giles, a senior expert on Russia at Britain's
prestigious Chatham House, describes how Russian leaders have used
consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the
world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the West, but
understanding them is essential for successful engagement with
Moscow. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think
not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual
successors will help their counterparts in the West develop a less
crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia.
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