Russia 's Information War Against The Ultra Conservative Population

"Security against Democracy: The Legacy of the Cold War at Home." Journal of American History, vol. 97, no. 4, Mar. 2011, pp. 939-957. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1093/jahist/jaq026.

During the Cold War, the Soviets were trying to spread communism throughout Europe and Asia by exalting its achievements, and undermining democracy. Part of their approach was by launching ‘Hate-America’ propaganda. “As the Cold War intensified, the Truman administration launched an aggressive “Campaign of Truth” […] to counter the Soviet Union propaganda machine (Ubah, 2012).” The Campaign of Truth was created to help convince the world that the United States has “no purpose of going to war, except in the defense of freedom. (Vaccaro, 1950)” Truman encouraged the media to show the world that the United States was ‘wholly dedicated to the cause of peace (Vaccaro,

In order to fully understand the vulnerability of modern America, it is vital that a historical precedent be given to show the past performance by the former Soviet Union. Due to certain alliances and variables aloft during World War II, a signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation was undergone in order to find out Joseph Stalin’s true intentions for the United States. This was called the Venona Operation, and in search for war time intentions it stumbled across a vast espionage operation that the Soviets had introduced to many sectors of the American government. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr (1999), researchers and authors of politics, relay that by means of ideological agreement with communism found in many American citizens, Venona uncovered “349 citizens, immigrants, and permanent residents of the United States who had a

The world is afraid of war. Weapons and nuclear arms have advanced so far that the world cannot physically handle another world war. Because of this Russia has taken another way about damaging the dominant democracy. Russia has hacked through social media and interfered with the trust and bond between the democratic governments and their people. How they accomplished this was a well thought out, sneaky way. They begun by hacking into the social media apps such as Twitter and Facebook,

In the years spanning the two world wars, propaganda in the United States morphed according to urgencies of national security. Concerns of such did not become paramount until Pearl Harbor, which “shattered…[America’s] illusion of invulnerability” (McMahon 6). In the preceding period of relative safety, Americans had the privilege of viewing Soviets with a gentle condescension. Not yet a genuine threat, the seemingly contradictory ideologies of capitalism and communism posed a mere conflict. After Pearl Harbor, it was still unclear whether the US’s neoliberalistic goal to establish “a freer and more open international economic system” could coexist peacefully with the USSR’s policy of “security-through-expansion” (9, 12), but the predicament was made to fester while both superpowers united to subdue German forces. Far removed from the European continent, average US citizens relied on news networks and cinema, avenues which for these people acted as “interpretive experts to inform their citizenship” (Patrick 11). The mediums acted as “principal information source[s]” (30), but the information provided became increasingly slanted as was necessitated to ‘inform the citizenship’ of persons in such a way as to mobilize a great war effort. The pre-Pearl Harbor film Ninotchka represents an example of the US’s early platonic condescension of the USSR, whereas the 1943 film Mission to Moscow demonstrates the urgency later felt by political elites to mobilize citizens in a war effort

Russia and the United States maintain diplomatic and trade relations. The relationship was generally warm under Russia's President Boris Yeltsin until the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, and has since deteriorated significantly under Vladimir Putin. We can only hope that Moscow can be fully defeated or that it can become a friend and fellow democracy. But Russia is not a democracy, nor is it democratizing, and although Russia may be in secular decline, it is a major power on the world stage which is not a good thing for the United

Cyber warfare is part of the American defense military strategy of proactive cyber defense and the use of cyber warfare as a means of attack. According to the United States military cyber attack is a form of ancient act of war. In 2013 Cyber warfare was, for the first time, perceived as a major threat than terrorist or Al Qaeda, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Representative Rogers Mike the leader of the U.S House permanent select committee on Intelligence, He said July 2013 that majority of Americans could not realized that the United States was under the middle of a cyber war. Cyber Warfare is an impending threat to the United States homeland security. Technology has been integrated in virtually every sphere of life in the form of computer technology including security. The modernization and revolution of the information technology has awakened to a new down of information warfare, a threat that stubbornly dogs the United States Homeland Security in form of cyber terrorism. The threat is an invisible war with weapons of automation yet with detrimental intent to espionage and sabotage security. This research paper intends to investigate the history of cyber terrorism, why cyber terrorism has flourished means of making the internet safer.

Summary: This book was a very interesting read. The story was written by the former award-winning correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, Mr. Ronald Kessler in 1989. He gave us an insight on how KGB, one of the world’s most effective information-gathering organization penetrated the United States Embassy in Moscow (Moscow Station). A Marine by the name of Sgt Clayton Lonetree, is known throughout the Marine Security Guard program, because of his conviction of espionage against the United States. He was used by the KGB to access the most vulnerable parts of the U.S. Embassy, and help provide a threat to our national security. The Russian spies used the term which is called the “honey pot” to the Department of the State. A young lady by the name of

Amidst a current political climate defined by Russian unpredictability, particularly following the supposed intervention in the American Presidential election, many are wondering what it is that makes the case of Vladimir Putin so anomalous. Almost 20 years into his presidency, having just announced his decision to run in the next election, Putin has created Russia anew, and the story of the Kremlin has adopted the qualities of a myth. Additionally, many aspects of the recent political and socioeconomic reality in Russia have become a model of what popular culture labels “fake news,” more appropriately called alternative facts. These alternative facts concern events such as the mysterious assassinations of active opponents of the Kremlin,

For the past century it seems the world has been continually on the brink of global war, and on two occasions these global crises led to terrible world wars. The First World War, was called the Great War, because there had never been a war that was so terrifying, or encompassing. The Second World War, was worse in comparison, but both started from very small incidents that cascaded into enormous conflicts that engulfed most of the world’s countries. Today we can look to Russia and their actions in Eastern Europe as the next inclinations of a global war. Several aspects of Russia’s public and secret actions prove as evidence for the coming of the next Great World War. Recent attacks on places like Ukraine and Georgia are parallel to those of the past, such as Germany’s false flag actions in Gleiwitz, Germany which allowed Nazi’s to build German public opinion to justify the invasion of Poland. Even Russia’s foreign policy displays Vladimir Putin’s drive for Russia to regain its super power standing of the cold war, similar to Hitler’s desire to return Germany to greatness following its defeat and humiliation in the Great War. Analysis of Putin’s rise to power, even seems to be taken from Hitler’s plans to gain control of Germany before World War two. America and its Allies are even following the same missteps that allowed the first two world wars to cascade into global conflicts.

Today when you turn on the news station when you turn on a news broadcast, you can count on seeing the familiar sight of some conflict between the US and Russia. We as modern Americans been raised in a country where a rivalry with Russia simply is. With it holding so much attention in modern political debate and discussion, it makes sense that the origin of the US’s ongoing rivalry with Russia would be the main shift since the Reconstruction Era. This origin as a formal and single event is often considered to be the original condemnation of the October Revolution by President Hoover. This is the single largest shift in the past century.

During War World II, The United States and The Soviet Union were allies against the Axis Powers. Although they were allies, the two had a very tense relationship. The American people had been quite wary of the Soviet Communism and they were concerned of the Russian leaders Joseph Stalin’s, blood thirsty rule of his own country. After the war was over, it wasn’t long until the grievances between the two turned into a mutual distrust and enmity. The Soviet Union and The United States were the most powerful countries in the world and they had completely different views on politics. The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism to upcoming nations in the world but The United States had a desire to spread democratic government throughout the world. The two remained confident that their own economic systems were better than the others, which led to an ongoing conflict that is now known as The Cold War. Americans feared the idea of Russia

One of the world’s more influential countries and a key player in world affairs since the dawn of the Cold War, Russia, has recently been enjoying the spotlight in world events such as their intervention in Crimea and assistance of Syrian forces in the war against the Islamic State. One of the more differential features Russia has the offer is not the expansive forests or large stockpile of Cold War era nuclear weapons, but its unique political system. Although the negative publicity Russia has received from the American media has cast a dark shadow on the Russian Federation, many Americans would be surprised to know Russia shares many features the United States possesses

Before state sanctioned cyber-attacks against U.S. organizations, infrastructure, and government can be analyzed, the concepts and environment surrounding the issue must be explored. These concepts include the traditional theoretical views of war and armed conflict, the current definitions of cyber-warfare, and the relationship of armed conflict and law in the changing landscape of the twenty-first century. Many of these concepts are still actively debated today due to building and breaking of relationships, evolving nature of cyber warfare, and the dynamism phenomenon or state of the environment, which Daft (2016) defines as “stable or unstable, simple or complex” (p.146). In

In November 2015 an accord was reached with Tehran to limit its ambitions to proliferate atomic weapons, four months after the agreement, American officials noted a surge in the use of sophisticated computer espionage by Iran (Sanger&Perloth, 2015). Iranian hackers targeted individual U.S State Department employees who focus specifically on Iran and The Middle East, hackers gain access to the employees’ email accounts and other social media accounts. They had no idea that that this had happened until Facebook notify the victims that state-sponsored hackers had gain access to their accounts. Iran’s cyber skills capabilities are not equal those of China or Russia, though hacking social media accounts of government works to gain access to their contacts in the administration had not seen before by either China or Russia (Sanger&Perloth, 2015). This action shows ingenuity way beyond Russia’s hacking to The State Department’s unclassified email system (Sanger&Perthloth, 2015).