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This book is devoted to one of the central issues in U.S.-Russian
and NATO-Russian relations ballistic missile defense. Drawing on
more than 2,000 primary sources, interviews with Russian and NATO
officials, and a variety of Russian and Western publications, this
book offers an unparalleled, in-depth analysis of the reasons
behind Russia s policy towards the construction of a U.S ballistic
missile defense in Europe. It provides a critical assessment of the
decision-making mechanisms that shape Russia s position on
ballistic missile defense, as well as Russia s strategic relations
with the United States and Russia s interaction with European and
non-European powers. Lilly argues that contrary to Moscow s
official claims during the Putin era, Russian objections to the
construction of ballistic missile defense in Europe have not been
wholly dictated by security concerns. To Russia, missile defense is
not purely an issue in and of itself, but rather a symbol and
instrument of broader political considerations. At the
international level, the factors that have shaped Russia s response
include Moscow s perception of the overall state of U.S.-Russian
relations, the Kremlin s capacity to project influence and power
abroad, and NATO s behavior in the post-Soviet space. Domestically,
the issue of missile defense has been a facilitating instrument for
strengthening Putin s regime and justifying military modernization.
Taken together, these instrumental considerations and their
fluctuating intensity in different periods prompt the Russian
leadership to pursue contradictory policy approaches
simultaneously. On the one hand, the Kremlin seeks U.S.
cooperation, while on the other hand, it threatens retaliation and
reinforces Russian offensive capabilities. The result is Moscow s
incoherence, inconsistency, and double-speak over the issue of
missile defense."
Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber
Wild West examines how Moscow tries to trample the very principles
on which democracies are founded and what we can do to stop it. In
particular, the book analyzes how the Russian government uses cyber
operations, disinformation, protests, assassinations, coup
d'états, and perhaps even explosions to destroy democracies from
within, and what the United States and other NATO countries can do
to defend themselves from Russia's onslaught. The Kremlin has been
using cyber operations as a tool of foreign policy against the
political infrastructure of NATO member states for over a decade.
Alongside these cyber operations, the Russian government has
launched a diverse and devious set of activities which at first
glance may appear chaotic. Russian military scholars and doctrine
elegantly categorizes these activities as components of a single
strategic playbook -- information warfare. This concept breaks down
the binary boundaries of war and peace and views war as a
continuous sliding scale of conflict, vacillating between the two
extremes of peace and war but never quite reaching either. The
Russian government has applied information warfare activities
across NATO members to achieve various objectives. What are these
objectives? What are the factors that most likely influence
Russia's decision to launch certain types of cyber operations
against political infrastructure and how are they integrated with
the Kremlin's other information warfare activities? To what extent
are these cyber operations and information warfare campaigns
effective in achieving Moscow's purported goals? Dr. Bilyana Lilly
addresses these questions and uses her findings to recommend
improvements in the design of U.S. policy to counter Russian
adversarial behavior in cyberspace by understanding under what
conditions, against what election components, and for what purposes
within broader information warfare campaigns Russia uses specific
types of cyber operations against political infrastructure.
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