Cross-Domain Coercion: The Nuclear Umbrella Over All Russian Warfare

Cross-domain coercion operates under the aegis of the Russian nuclear arsenal and aims to manipulate the adversary’s perception, to maneuver its decision-making process, and to influence its strategic behavior while minimizing, compared to the industrial warfare era, the scale of kinetic force use.

Source: Adamsky (2015), cited in Full Working Draft, Ch. 10

The scholarly foundation: ALL Russian warfare operates “under the aegis” of the nuclear arsenal. The nuclear threat is not a separate tool — it is the umbrella under which every other operation takes place. The pyramid: nuclear threat at the apex charges the disinformation at the base with credibility. The base does the actual work. The apex only needs to exist.

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