Abstract: The advanced threat of Russian disinformation campaigns against Western democracies and the United States in particular begs the questions: What are Russia’s strategies for information warfare, and how can the United States combat them? This article explores the evolution of anti-Western propaganda coming from Russia in three ways: state-funded global social media networks, controlling Western media outlets, and direct lobbying of Western society. Recommendations to combat these threats include analysis of deterrence theory and its applicability to the domain of information warfare.