KGB: Russian Spies, Spetsnaz Special Forces and Covert Operations from Hybrid Warfare to the Cold War Ukraine

Name: KGB: Russian Spies, Spetsnaz Special Forces and Covert Operations from Hybrid Warfare to the Cold War Ukraine
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Bol I was on a NATO press mission in Baku when a woman with striking green eyes sat down beside the hotel pool, told me her favorite book was The Prince, and invited me up to her room to read it. She said she was a real estate agent on holiday. She wasn't. I found out later she was a professional, working a known method, on a known target: me.That night is where this book starts, but it's not really about me. It's about the century-long machine behind that woman at the pool - the institutions, doctrines, and people that make up Russia's spies and special forces, from the Cheka's revolutionary terror in 1917 through the KGB, the GRU, and Spetsnaz, to the FSB and SVR running the hybrid war Russia is fighting today.This book traces that machine in full: the Cold War spy networks and disinformation campaigns that shaped how the West understood the Soviet Union; the birth of Spetsnaz and what it actually takes to train for a mission behind enemy lines; the brutal internal wars in Chechnya that taught Russian forces how to fight an insurgency; the seizure of Crimea and the proxy war in Donbas that became the template for modern hybrid warfare; and the miscalculations, in Georgia and then catastrophically in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, that show this system is dangerous but far from infallible.Drawing on years spent in and around the Baltics, a background in international law and human rights, and personal encounters with Russian covert power - a family friend convicted of espionage, a beating by off-duty police in Russia, and that evening in Baku - this is narrative nonfiction written to explain how Russia actually uses power in the shadows, and why understanding it matters now more than at any point since the Cold War.For anyone trying to make sense of the war in Ukraine, the hybrid pressure on NATO's eastern flank, or the machinery of a state that has treated secrecy and force as ordinary tools of governance for over a hundred years, this book is the place to start.

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I was on a NATO press mission in Baku when a woman with striking green eyes sat down beside the hotel pool, told me her favorite book was The Prince, and invited me up to her room to read it. She said she was a real estate agent on holiday. She wasn't. I found out later she was a professional, working a known method, on a known target: me.That night is where this book starts, but it's not really about me. It's about the century-long machine behind that woman at the pool - the institutions, doctrines, and people that make up Russia's spies and special forces, from the Cheka's revolutionary terror in 1917 through the KGB, the GRU, and Spetsnaz, to the FSB and SVR running the hybrid war Russia is fighting today.This book traces that machine in full: the Cold War spy networks and disinformation campaigns that shaped how the West understood the Soviet Union; the birth of Spetsnaz and what it actually takes to train for a mission behind enemy lines; the brutal internal wars in Chechnya that taught Russian forces how to fight an insurgency; the seizure of Crimea and the proxy war in Donbas that became the template for modern hybrid warfare; and the miscalculations, in Georgia and then catastrophically in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, that show this system is dangerous but far from infallible.Drawing on years spent in and around the Baltics, a background in international law and human rights, and personal encounters with Russian covert power - a family friend convicted of espionage, a beating by off-duty police in Russia, and that evening in Baku - this is narrative nonfiction written to explain how Russia actually uses power in the shadows, and why understanding it matters now more than at any point since the Cold War.For anyone trying to make sense of the war in Ukraine, the hybrid pressure on NATO's eastern flank, or the machinery of a state that has treated secrecy and force as ordinary tools of governance for over a hundred years, this book is the place to start.

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