Armand Chouet at Robert Lansing Institute

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Tehran and Damascus use the drug trafficking both as a source to finance their activities and as hybrid war weapon. In order to weaken the West the Soviet Union has…

June 29, 2021captagon, Hezbollah, Iran

Geopolitics Opinion

Lavrov-Blinken meeting: Russia chooses not to read the writing on the wall

The outcome of the meeting between the US Secretary of State Blinken and Foreign Minister Lavrov in Reykjavik, Iceland, casts a long shadow on the Kremlin’s outlook for ramming down…

May 21, 2021Antony Blinken, Russia, USA

National Security Warfare

Russia targets American diplomats with new directed energy weapon

‘Havana Syndrome’ is a result of Soviet microwave weapons technologies used in the 1970s. According to new reporting from The New York Times, over 130 American diplomats, troops and other…

May 18, 2021Havana Syndrome, Microwave weapons, Russia

Intelligence ops

Matters of priority for Russian intelligence in 2020

Both ELINT and HUMINT findings for the missions by Russian intelligence reveal the Kremlin is vigorous, as at the height of the Cold War. The issues Russian intelligence agencies are…

December 24, 2020FSB, GRU, Russia

Governance

Putin’s health rumors as a sign of power shift

The Kremlin is gearing up for Putin to release his grip on power amid constant rumors he is ill. This goes along with a tough fight by policy-makers and malfunction…

November 12, 2020Putin, Russia

Posts by Armand Chouet

Pro-Iranian proxies export Captagon as hybrid war weapon

Lavrov-Blinken meeting: Russia chooses not to read the writing on the wall

Russia targets American diplomats with new directed energy weapon

Matters of priority for Russian intelligence in 2020

Putin’s health rumors as a sign of power shift

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