Strategy in Russa

With the recent creation of our group project, we were assigned to look into Russian literature.  Our group decided to focus our attention on Vladimir Nabokov's novel, The Defense. This book focuses on a character obsessed with the game of chess.  Chess, as we all know, is based in complex strategy and tactics to defeat the enemy.  Politics and battle are arenas where strategy is crucial as well, and another Vladimir, Putin this time, is shaking things up. Executing the new concept of "non-linear warfare," is proving to be successful in Russian politics.  This strategy is defined by its shape-shifting nature, and leaves the opponent confused and unsure of what the enemy is really up to.  Will this strategy retain it's momentum?  Or will it come to the same end as the Luzhin defense.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/05/how-putin-is-reinventing-warfare/