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Misunderstanding Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, is dangerous. Russia is not merely intent on interfering with our elections. Russia is determined to weaken the United States and defeat us—if necessary, by using military force. This is Putin’s playbook. Many Americans, worn out by upheaval from the coronavirus and constant political and social strife, are eager to restore some sense of normalcy and equanimity to their lives. And, after four years of exhausting federal investigations that stemmed from the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, many lost interest in Russia and its foreign policy. And yet now it is more important than ever to understand Moscow’s role in “Russiagate,” which has torn our country apart, and President Putin’s intentions toward America in the future. Understandably, it is tempting to close the “Russiagate” chapter of America’s life. After all, the multi-year, multimillion- dollar investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller concluded that not a single American, let alone the U.S. president himself, conspired with the Russians to steal the 2016 election.1 Former president Donald Trump, whose entire term was darkened by the shadow of the unfounded “collusion” allegations, famously tweeted in relief at the conclusion of the Mueller probe, “No collusion. Game Over.”2 Many Republicans and the former president’s supporters celebrated his innocence and vindication. Democrats and those who hate Trump got busy looking for other ways to resist and discredit the president. Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has consistently denied interference in our election, mocked the Mueller probe, saying, “The mountain gave birth to a mole.”3 His spokesman Dmitry Peskov triumphantly proclaimed: “It’s impossible to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if it’s not there.”4 The “witch hunt,” as Trump called it, turned out to be just that. As evidenced by the Justice Department’s findings, a small but powerful group within the American law enforcement and intelligence apparatus orchestrated an unprecedented intrusion into the electoral process by weaponizing the highly sensitive Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA) and other powers against American citizens. They sought to penetrate a presidential candidate’s campaign on the pretext of counterintelligence concerns in order to discredit Trump and eventually remove him from office. In the process, these apparatchiks destroyed the lives and careers of innocent Americans like General Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor and my boss in his earlier role as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. As newly declassified documents reveal, this 33-year U.S. Army veteran, who risked his life during the United States’ war on terror to protect his country, was deliberately ensnared in an elaborate dragnet by the FBI, which destroyed his career, family, and reputation. The American intelligence and security apparatus unleashed the full power of the state against Flynn and others. But just because the “Trump-Putin collusion” turned out to be a hoax fabricated by the U.S. intelligence and security apparatchiks doesn’t mean Russia did not have a hand in the disruption of the 2016 presidential election and the resulting upheaval in America. It certainly did. It worked so well for Putin that he went for seconds in 2020. Creating discord and disarray in America was Putin’s plan both in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and Moscow believes it has been fulfilled—and then some. It remains Putin’s plan for our future. For the past thirty years, the failure to grasp this essential truth has caused the U.S. government to pursue a dangerously misguided policy toward Moscow. U.S. administrations have been stuck in an endless cycle of “resets” with Russia for too long, launching and re-launching misguided policies based more on wishful thinking than on realistic assessments of a sophisticated and strategic opponent. Such inept approaches to dealing with Moscow have brought a crisis in U.S.-Russian relations that could escalate even to the point of a nuclear war—a war that neither country wants, but one that Putin’s Russia has been preparing to win. Putin’s Playbook reveals the blueprint and the array of tools that the Russian military and security apparatus has crafted (and that the Russian president has approved) to destabilize and defeat America. As a Russian-born American citizen, I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and, in an unusual twist of fate, became a U.S. intelligence officer. This book describes for the first time the true Russian threat to America. I have seen this threat up close, and I understand both sides of this conflict from an intelligence perspective.