Russian Reflexive Control
From Command and Control by Peter Roberts
February 16, 2026 · 40 min · Season 5 · Episode 20
About this episode
The episode discusses Russia's strategy of reflexive control over Western national security responses and offers insights from Dr. Ivana Stradner on how to counter this influence.
Russia has become adept at directing the attention of its adversaries by triggering national security responses to small, sometimes insignificant activities, distracting Western leaders from Moscow's more important actions elsewhere. The Kremlin understand Western sociology and politics so well that one is hard pressed to do anything but admire their execution of reflexive control over external national security systems: The Wests' inability to regain the initiative and to build a more resilient attention economy is disappointing. Dr Ivana Stradner has some answers: in explaining the foundations of Russian C2, Ivana offers real options for Western leaders in regaining a footing in the information war against Moscow.
People in this episode
Host: Peter Roberts
Guest: Dr Ivana Stradner
Topics covered
- Russian national security
- reflexive control
- Western response
- information war
- C2 systems
Keywords
- reflexive control
- national security
- information war
- Western leaders
- C2 systems
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Kremlin
Places: Russia, West, Moscow
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