‘Kozhevnikov has always been a star. He’s the best man we have.’ (My boss, Mikhail Vasilyevich)
‘His glory days as a Spetsnaz operative are long past. His fabled successes have been pure luck whether in the field or behind a desk. He’s been nothing but a troublemaker for the last ten years. Or twenty. He’d rather talk to the terrorists than fight them. His advice to Putin in critical incidents deliberately undermines me and makes any aggressive operation a hundred times more difficult. And now he’s a positive threat while we try to keep public order in the run-up to Putin’s election and tackle this upsurge in subversion. You want him to advise on counter-subversion; I think his sympathies lie with the dissidents and the protestors. I don’t care how clever he is; he’s a liability.’ (Pankratov, Head of the FSB – Federal Security Bureau)
It’s a point of view.
I am currently busy manipulating the US presidential election, but will have some opinion pieces for you shortly, as well as personal coaching that you might find useful, on tactical elimination and target hardening.
To begin with – to commemorate a horrific event, click here for my view on lessons learned – fifteen years after 9/11.