[elhombrelibre]

Good post. The author makes many good points.

[Monmouth78]

Russia is playing monkey see, monkey do.

[mosesdapoet]

Isn’t this city where “so called locals” took over the Opera House because they thought it was the city hall and demanded the mayor surrender ?

They should grab these people throw them into the back of an open 6by tied face down and haul their asses back to Kiev. Do a thorough interrogation and examine every article of clothing to see where it originated from and if they’re Russian . Call for a UN hearing parade them before the UN then take them out and try them as spys or terrorists.

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[freedomfiter2]

This seems to be the tactic being used by Mexico.

[Lysandru]

This sort of warfare is not truly new--it's just made an unexpected return but with the added twist of global mass media.

The author makes great points, but I must dissent on just how "civilian" the CIA Special Activities Division is. I don't classify paramilitary units as truly "civilian." Certainly a Coast Guard is not civilian-- it is a paramilitary gendarmerie.

But I do admire on a professional level how the Russians are conductign Information Operations. The whole Ukraine Crisis should be a mandatory War College case study if we can somehow survive the remaining Obama Years.

[Tainan]

"For example, the civilian Central Intelligence Agency runs one of the larger and more efficient air forces in the world,..."

A rather ambitious and unsubstantiated comment.
IMO, casts the shade of doubt on other "statements of fact" in the piece.