A specialist in Eastern Europe, Jacques Baud was a member of the Swiss strategic intelligence service and head of the United Nations peacekeeping operations doctrine. Within NATO, he took part in programs in Ukraine, notably after the Maïdan revolution between 2014 and 2017. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, which have been translated in many countries, in particular Putin: Game Master?, Operation Z, Ukraine between War and Peace, The Russian Art of War, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and Governing by Fake News, all published by Max Milo.