"Russia in Ukraine 2013-2016: The Application of ..." Topic

…New Type Warfare Maximizing the Exploitation of Cyber, IO, and Media.

"This case study for analysis focuses on Russian operations in Ukraine from 2013-2016. Russian decision-making in Ukraine has demonstrated the ability to use cyber and information warfare to influence operations to support military and political objectives, and continued preparation of the cyber environment to create a range of options for future action. The Russians were able to use Ukraine operations as a test for New Generation Warfare (NGW) to enhance the deep battle concept. Russia has adeptly executed deep battle, creating time and space to effectively employ limited ground forces and special operations to achieve desired effects. The employment of the cyber domain created windows of opportunity for success and simultaneous execution of offensive and defensive tasks across the strategic and operational levels and other domains. Additionally, the cyber capabilities employed allowed the Russians to achieve three critical strategic effects; 1) troop levels were minimized through integrated cyber operations and operational advantage gained; 2) Russian leadership maintained plausible deniability through effective cyber and information operations delaying international intervention; 3) cyber operations achieved desired effects and kept the threshold for violence below an international outcry for intervention or interference allowing the Russians to achieve the strategic objective to control key terrain in Ukraine…."
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More like "implausible deniability" as far as I'm concerned.

US/NATO have SAT photos of radar data showing artillery being fired from Russia, over the border into Ukraine.

They lost all pretense of deniability with the seizure and annexation of Crimea.

Seems to me it is just maskirovka taken to the Internet. But I guess I'm just too old.

And this will (maybe already has) bite them on the ass, since no one sensible (though there may be too few sensible people left) believe anything the Russians say.

Rob

(smile)

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