Tom Johansmeyer
Economic Warfare Reimagined: Insurance as a Tool of U.S. Strategic Influence
The U.S. is losing the war on sentiment in the Global South, where the world’s most economically vulnerable countries rely on larger powers for economic support and security. Russia and China have capitalized on this dynamic by seizing the economic initiative in this region, often at the expense
Friendly Cyber Fire: How Much Did NotPetya Cost Russia?
In June 2017, a cyber attack spread malware across government, utilities, commercial, and financial websites across Ukraine and more than 60 other countries. In February 2018, the UK and US governments attributed the attack, since dubbed "NotPetya," as a Russian military operation. It’s been called (perhaps hyperbolically)
State-Actor Cyber Catastrophes: $40bn over 26 Years
✉️ Email header below is auto-generated from this post’s author tag. It only appears in the newsletter — please don’t edit or delete it. The first article published in the Journal of Strategic Competition provides a fresh view of a vexing problem – understanding the cost of cyber catastrophe. The prospect
How Much Would it Cost to Buy Away Foreign Influence in Moldova?
We’ve talked about Moldova before. And while the country may be of limited strategic importance to the United States, it’s value as a testing ground for offensive economic security measures may be unparalleled. Recent droughts have exacerbated Moldova’s susceptibility to foreign influence, given Moldova’s reliance on
An Introduction to the Economic & Legal Warfare Project
Irregular warfare thrives in the proverbial “gray zone”—that murky space between war and peace, conflict and stability. The past several decades have shown a need to move beyond Cold War-era orthodoxy, where military force was the primary lever of assertive power, to an environment in which non-military hard power
Money Talks and Hunger Walks: Buying Down State-Actor Influence Risk
Editor’s note: This article is part of Project Cyber, which explores and characterizes the myriad threats facing the United States and its allies in cyberspace, the information environment, and conventional and irregular spaces. Please contact us if you would like to propose an article, podcast, or event environment. We
Cyber Attacks in Perspective: Cutting Through the Hyperbole
This article is part of Project Cyber, which explores and characterizes the myriad threats facing the United States and its allies in cyberspace, the information environment, and conventional and irregular spaces. Please contact us if you would like to propose an article, podcast, or event environment. We invite you to
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.