At The Free Press, Aaron MacLean paints an intriguing – and alarming – strategic portrait of the implications for 21st century warfare of Ukraine’s daring and imaginative infiltration-based drone strikes on Russia’s strategic bombers parked thousands of kilometres behind the frontlines. MacLean’s message in a nutshell: Western leaders, expect unexpected attacks anytime, anywhere by China against your most expensive military assets.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
