145 Understanding Russia's Global Online Influence

Our guest is Oscar Jonsson. He’s the director of the Stockholm Free World Forum, a Swedish foreign and security policy think tank, and an associated researcher at the Swedish Defense University. Previously, Oscar was a subject-matter expert at the Policy and Plans Department at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters.  Our conversation focuses on Oscar’s recent book, “The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace.” In it, he tracks the history of Russian tactics and strategies, and explores how Russia sees itself in the online global community.

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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.