Doctrine, there are various large bodies of thoughts of intellectual, military and political talks going around in russia for 10 years and some of those both have the same theme and sometimes they run into each other, sometimes they dont. For those of you here in the audience who have dealt with russia for many years you know that for a fullfledged doctrine that more or less encompassesthe whole society and the whole state , you need to be pretty organized and the russians are not that organized in that regard. Theres a lot of stuff going on and Different Actors feeling their different interests and interagency competitions and put on top of that corruption so nevertheless, lets talk about what we understand on this. , some people have described it as pointed out as new generation warfare, others terminate as strategic deterrence, others determine it as cross coercion, but all those approaches have in common is that you rely on asymmetric response. So its basically a very cheap insight
Doctrine, there are various large bodies of thoughts of intellectual, military and political talks going around in russia for 10 years and some of those both have the same theme and sometimes they run into each other, sometimes they dont. For those of you here in the audience who have dealt with russia for many years you know that for a fullfledged doctrine that more or less encompassesthe whole society and the whole state , you need to be pretty organized and the russians are not that organized in that regard. Theres a lot of stuff going on and Different Actors feeling their different interests and interagency competitions and put on top of that corruption so nevertheless, lets talk about what we understand on this. , some people have described it as pointed out as new generation warfare, others terminate as strategic deterrence, others determine it as cross coercion, but all those approaches have in common is that you rely on asymmetric response. So its basically a very cheap insight
Recognize that this situation is quite destabilizing and treat it as a matter of high priority. They could focus on conflict management with the aim of preventing unintended escalation, however, what speaks against that is the pure fact that russia reads benefits from unpredictable behavior. I would go as far as to say that unpredictability is a major element of the russian strategy within nato. So in essence, that would make it necessary to change the russian calculus. Moscow must come to view the gains from corporation as outweighing those from confrontation and unpredictability. But that would basically mean that washington would be willing to offer something significant and with that i mean something that goes beyond the immediate arms control goal of predict, stability and transparency and i think we should discuss that later as well. What that could be. So against that background, what could be done . Nato and russia hold tentative talks about aerospace and one of the goals is to
Changes provided for under the fast act including processing procedures and an application dashboard. And finally something that goes hand in hand with all of the departments efforts is research and innovation. In march we began the competition for utc grants which allows students and faculty to Work Together towards innovative transportation solutions. Weve received 212 applications for the 35 grants available. Im proud of the work the department has accomplished in such a short period of time. But this is just the beginning. And it would not be possible i would like to repeat without the work of this congress on a bipartisan basis. We will continue our aggressive schedule to execute the reforms you put into place because if our nations going to have the type of Transportation System tomorrow that is better than it had today, wasted time is something none of us can afford. So with that, mr. Chairman, i want to thank you and i look forward to your questions. Thank you, mr. Secretary. A
our proposals that we put back on the table are consistent with our principles and the international system and don t cave to the unacceptable russian demands. i don t think at this point we can avoid it. but the key is to keep our allies on the same page, what is acceptable and what is not and try to steer the russians away from this completely outrageous demand to roll back the last 25 years of history, and instead, look for some technical arms control solutions and confidence building measures that could actually address concrete concerns, but continue to preserve a europe whole free and at peace. jacqui: we ve been told working in close coordination with our allies is a big priority in writing these responses. we learned that yesterday. so, you know, wait for that in the coming days i suppose. thank you so much for joining