Putin's Playbook

Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America

By: Rebekah Koffler

Narrated by: Joyce Sternton

Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals.

In Putin’s Playbook, Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multifaceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a superpower and to defeat America in the process. Koffler explains the Putin-ordered five-point master plan to defeat America, which includes spies, satellite killers, bombers, lasers, undersea cable cutters, cyber trolls, nuclear missiles, assassinations, and special techniques that Russia uses to distort Americans’ perceptions of reality. Koffler also reveals how Moscow plans to turn our strengths - such as our open, democratic society, the technology that pervades every sphere of our lives, and our aversion to war casualties - into vulnerabilities.

Koffler explores the military components of Russia’s strategy, including its powerful arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons and the advanced new weaponry unveiled the day after the 2018 Trump-Putin Helsinki summit. She details why Moscow views America’s dependency on satellite technology for military operations as our country’s “Achilles’ heel” and alerts listeners to the newly erected National Center for State Defense, a wartime structure. Finally, there is a discussion of why Moscow violated the US-Russian Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The picture is clear, warns Koffler: Putin is mobilizing his country for the “inevitable” war.

Koffler reminds us it’s imperative that the full extent of the Russian threat be revealed, both to those who are increasingly concerned and those who are just beginning to feel uneasy about foreign interference in, and manipulation of, our daily lives. The “warning system”, as Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence, declared, is “blinking red”.

©2021 Rebekah Koffler (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

An Important Read, Especially after the 2022 Ukraine War has Browken Out

Rebekah is someone I have met, and she is everything you think when reading this book. Astute, Highly Intelligent, and Honest. The main question she raised in this book about what Russia has always done to America, makes you deeply think about what is at the root of many of your opinions, both politically and socially. And for some, economically. Not to mention so much more about the Government here.

Boring

I wanted to like this account of the Russian leader to gain new insights but it's nothing new if you follow reputable new sources. The author has a clear political bias but my rating is based on the quality and delivery of the content. After three hours I had to throw in the towel. I keep falling asleep and found the cadence of the performance lacking.

A Great Patriot!

Excellent read! America needs to put her ego aside and listen to people like Rebekah Koffler.

Wish I’d read sooner

This lady knows her stuff. Great use of my time to better understand an adversary.

Well written, smart, and what we need.

The talking heads hate this book because it's full of what we need to save ourselves from the threats both outside and from within. Written by someone who actually experienced communism and knows the signs of what it looks like, where it comes from, and what it does to a society, this book provides insight into how recognize and deal with such evils.