2018, Thriller of the Year

The year 2018 beats out the wildest fantasies of Tom Clancy’s political thrillers:

• Russia’s election interference and subversive influence operations are all the rage in Europe
• Skripals’ poisoning and Russian death squad activity in UK
• Bizarre Salisbury Spire’s video interview of the hit squad and subsequent failure of GRU in Netherlands
• Disappearance of Interpol Chef in China
• Alleged dismemberment of the Saudi dissident journalist in the the Saudi consulate in Istanbul
• Chinese military intelligence bugging electronic components of US critical infrastructure servers
• Kidnappings of Turkish dissidents by Erdogan’s secret service all over Europe.

Source: The Technological and Market Dimension of Info Operations and Warfare (Influence Operations), Market Estimates