DECEIVE & COMMAND: The Horrors of Russia’s Strategic Deception
In August 2008, Russian bombs fell on Grigol Julukhidze’s hometown in Georgia. The second weapon arrived the same day — not from the sky, but through the television screen: a fabricated reality that inverted the aggressor and the victim before the smoke had cleared. That experience — the bomb and the lie that followed — became the origin of this book.
Deceive & Command is narrative nonfiction built on fifteen years of research and field work across more than seventy-five countries. Drawing on interviews with journalists, researchers, diplomats, activists and survivors conducted across Europe, Latin America and Africa, Grigol Julukhidze traces Russia’s information warfare architecture from its Soviet roots to its twenty-first century global reach.
This is not a book about abstract geopolitics. It is a book about specific operations, documented in detail: the bot networks that overwhelmed the Catalan referendum and reduced authentic public discourse to 3% of all social media traffic; the fabricated atrocities that turned Ukrainians from brothers into existential enemies in less than a decade; the engineered migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, where human beings were recruited, transported and deployed as instruments of pressure against NATO; the Wagner Group’s cognitive operations in Mali, where a liberation narrative concealed the systematic extraction of gold and the worst civilian massacre in a decade of conflict; the quiet, methodical infiltration of Latin American information spaces from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro.
Chapter by chapter, the book reveals a single coherent doctrine: Russia does not need the world to love it. It only needs the world to doubt itself.
Deceive & Command covers:
- Introduction — The First Bomb and the First Lie: Georgia 2008 and the prototype of the new information war
- Chapter 1 — Tragedy of Modern Russia: Why the world’s largest nation chose fear over seduction
- Chapter 2 — Operation Ukraine: From shared identity to existential enemy
- Chapter 3 — The Laboratory on the Mediterranean: Russia’s intervention in the Catalan referendum of 2017
- Chapter 4 — People as Weapons: The weaponization of migration and the war on the Polish-Belarusian border
- Chapter 5 — The Italian Job: Russia’s psychological operation against Italian society
- Chapter 6 — The Battle for Latin American Minds: Colombia, Brazil and Argentina
- Chapter 7 — The Sahel Gambit: How Russia expelled France from Mali, seized its gold, and called it liberation
- Chapter 8 — Wait and Hope: On resistance, resilience, and the windows that history opens
Written for anyone who wants to understand the world they are living in — in plain language, with real stories, from someone who was there.
Available on Amazon in Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover editions.
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