The Russians Are Coming
“A lie can travel halfway around the world
while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
– Mark Twain
About five years ago, I was struck by two articles written by Molly McKew — a journalist, former aide to the president of Georgia and an expert in information warfare — about a 30-year-old strategy called The Gerasimov Doctrine, which outlined the Russian government’s five-part strategy to compete with China and the West now that the former Soviet Union could no longer do so militarily or economically. ‘It’s war; it is always war; and…