The term Maskirovka (маскировка), used by the Russians for centuries - it was codified as a military doctrine for the first time in 1920 - to refer to military operations of deception or deception, of disinformation, in short, it could well be rescued to describe part of the actions of information warfare that Russia carries out on the Internet. After all, although it originally had a tactical meaning, focused on battle, since the 70s it has also been used at theater and strategic levels to deceive the enemy regarding Russian political and military capabilities or to camouflage its true intentions, thus multiplying the opponent's dilemmas and generating what Clausewitz called "fog." Of course, and after accumulating decades of experience and doctrinal development, Russian disinformation actions today go far beyond the original meaning of the Maskirovka, but it is evident that everything comes from the same common trunk, hence the nod to the famous concept. The problem for the West is that the combination of a way of acting intrinsic to Russian thinking, the great accumulated experience and the advantages offered by the Internet, is allowing Moscow to launch operations with a cost/benefit ratio never seen before.
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