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93. Molly McKew is a very problematic warmonger and an ex RW American Enterprise Institute collaborator

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who shilled for Bush and his illegal Iraq war

https://www.aei.org/profile/molly-mckew/

Her Foreign Agents Registration Act records

https://tinyurl.com/mbhejcp8


The hawks of war have come out to play

They’re so excited about the prospect of a war.

https://theoutline.com/post/831/leah-letter-the-hawks-of-war-have-come-out-to-play


She often doesn't disclose her lobbyist ties and claims titles she is not qualified to claim.


Adjunct Professor’s Qualifications Questioned by Colleagues

https://thehoya.com/adjunct-professors-qualifications-questioned-colleagues/

Molly McKew, a recently hired adjunct professor teaching a course on Russian disinformation campaigns for the School of Foreign Service, has faced criticism from colleagues and news outlets for her former status as a foreign lobbyist. McKew, who holds a masters degree in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and has served as an advisor to political parties in Georgia and Moldova, is teaching her first course at Georgetown this semester. The course, entitled “Russian Hybrid Warfare,” focuses on the history of Russian ideology and information warfare. McKew also currently serves as the CEO of Fianna Strategies, a consulting firm.

Greg Afinogenov, an assistant professor of Imperial Russian History at Georgetown, criticized the university’s hiring of McKew. In a series of tweets, Afinogenov wrote that McKew’s history as a foreign lobbyist posed several conflicts of interest to her role as a professor. “A student who takes her class will not know which of her ideas are truth, which are credible suppositions, and which are complete fabrications,” Afinogenov wrote in a Jan. 10 tweet. McKew has written articles for several publications, including Politico and The Washington Post, and has also served as a commentator for TV and radio shows such as Frontline.

McKew’s writings are not academic in nature and do not qualify her as a scholar or an expert, Afinogenov wrote in an email to The Hoya. “McKew is an example of exactly the kind of journalist whose articles should be corrected by scholars: the claims she makes are outlandish, escalationist, and rooted in a history of working for foreign governments with an interest in influencing public debate in the United States,” @Afinogenov wrote.

https://archive.ph/1nkwr










evidence of her unprofessionalism and basic error-making


McKew proclaimed that the Kremlin can nuke their own people per their official encoded doctrine.

No.

Link to tweet

Aric Toler, a lead researcher at Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, tracked down where McKew found it. A looney Russian history buff wrote it for an alternative Russian paper.

Link to tweet

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Gerasimov Doctrine

In September 2017, Politico published McKew’s article about “The Gerasimov Doctrine.” She alleges this is a new Russian hybrid warfare model coined by Russian General Valery Gerasimov; it ran in a Russian military periodical in February of 2013.

The Gerasimov Doctrine has technically been debunked by one of the most respected Russian experts and the man who coined the term “The Gerasimov Doctrine” Mark Galeotti. This is what Galeotti wrote on July 6, 2014:

“When using the term ‘Gerasimov Doctrine,’ I was just going for a snappy title. I really didn’t expect (or want) it to become a more generally used term. Why? (a) Gerasimov didn’t invent this; if any CoGS deserves the ‘credit’ it would be his predecessor Makarov, but even so it is really an evolutionary, not revolutionary process; and (b) it’s not a doctrine, which is in the Russian lexicon a truly foundational set of beliefs as to what kinds of war the country will be fighting in the future and how it will win them — this is more an observation about a particular aspect of particular kinds of wars in the 21st Century, there is certainly no expectation that this is the Russian way of war. So stop it, please!”

Additionally, Roger McDermott, an expert on Russian military and security issues addressed the insignificance of the “Gerasimov Doctrine” in a paper last year.

“Indeed, no less an authority on whether Russia had devised a hybrid warfare doctrine and operational approach to conflict is General Gerasimov himself. By March 2016, though aware of the extent of Western speculation in this regard, it appears Gerasimov was oblivious to its actual existence. Gerasimov’s more recent piece entirely contradicts the widely held interpretation of his February 2013 article and implies his earlier article was being misread and misinterpreted outside Russia”

I’m Sorry for Creating the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’

I was the first to write about Russia’s infamous high-tech military strategy. One small problem: it doesn't exist.

By Mark Galeotti

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/05/im-sorry-for-creating-the-gerasimov-doctrine/