Under the influence
Jorge Marinho and Júlio Ventura consider lawfare and foreign influence on politicians as he examines NATO and Portuguese internal intelligence service insights
Politicians can be the targets of influence operations directly or indirectly conducted by adversary states, by turning to various instruments such as the media and lobbying firms, for instance. In this case, influence operations are developed such that the target state can politically decide to regard as hostile or unwanted and, for this reason, in relation to which it can also determine certain countermeasures.In reality, there are circumstances where . . .
