Nolan Peterson, July 14th 2019, The National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-iran-might-fight-war-against-america-thanks-russia-67002 KYIV, Ukraine—The recent military tension between the U.S. and Iran underscores a new era of conflict, some military officials and analysts say, in which a country’s power on the world stage is no longer measured solely by economic clout, military force, or even diplomatic sway.  Rather, […]Read More

Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The Atlantic, July 12th 2019 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/chinas-influence-efforts-germany-students/593689/ Beijing uses student and professional associations to try to influence not just Chinese citizens abroad, but outsiders, too. In centuries past, Prussian, Napoleonic, Nazi, and Allied soldiers all tramped the Strasse des 17. Juni, an east–west boulevard traversing Berlin’s leafy Tiergarten park, over which soars a […]Read More

Kim Sengupta, The Independent, July 17th, 2019 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lithuania-elves-russia-election-tampering-online-cyber-crime-hackers-kremlin-a9008931.html When the dark acts of the trolls became particularly harmful, the Elves felt they had no choice but to get together and fight back, and the fierce battle which then began has since been waged with no sign of ending.   Industrial-scale spreading of disinformation; manipulating elections; undermining […]Read More