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Recent events have shown that Russian intelligence efforts against the United States and the West have continued since the end of the Cold War and have perhaps increased in recent years. In particular, Vladimir Putin appears determined to get even with the U.S. for Russian losses at the end of the Cold War.
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On Friday, March 5, The New York Times published an article entitled
Biden Seeks Update for a Much-Stretched Law That Authorizes the War on Terrorism by veteran reporter Charlie Savage. The law in question is known as AUMF, or Authorization of Use of Military Force, and was minted shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a kind of skeleton key to any limit of U.S. military force. In the article, Savage unearths a major problem with U.S. foreign policy, or more accurately, the U.S.’s proclivity to use military force, via drone strikes, as a backstop to foreign policy good and bad.
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This week, we are excited to welcome Jack Devine back to
SOFREP Radio.
With a career in the CIA that spanned more than three decades, Devine knows more about the American intelligence apparatus than most today. From the Iran-Contra affair and undermining the Russians in Afghanistan to serving as CIA’S acting director of operations and associate director of operations in the mid-1990s, Devine is a spy’s spy.
SOFREP Radio in 2017, Devine has been hard at work. He brings to this week’s episode a deep dive into the history of U.S.-Russian espionage, which has shown remarkable strategic consistency on the part of the Russians even as the tools of spycraft (especially cyber) have evolved since the Cold War.