Partnerships to address a broad range of global challenges, building cyber space capability and confronting uncertainty with agility and innovation. This is a particularly difficult job today as we see a resurgent russia, and rising china, challenging us with Nuclear Capabilities, space and cyber space, as well as countries like north korea and iran, seeking greater roles in these domains, proliferation of technology, and information has increased risks, posed by nonstate actors in many of these areas, as well. In short, Strategic Deterrence may be more challenging today than it has ever been. This is why we at the Atlantic Council have been tackling many of these issues head on, including our work in russia, particularly our transatlantic Security Work as we chart a path for a europe, whole and free. Likewise we have been doing extensive programming on Cyber Security and cyber state craft initiative. Ranging from natos Cyber Mission to the recent cyberattack on sony. Our initiative an
[ inaudible ]. Well, right now from my perspective, my bigticket item is that those items need to be in the budget and funded. Ill let the professionals here from the office of secretary of defense and Congress Really work on the noodle on how we need to work that perhaps more holistically in terms of what you just said. That piece of being able to follow the money as you know is very important, to whether its one bin, or one that we pay bins that we pay close attention to, associated with things, because when you work at the ssbn or icbm, is one Mission Associated with things and then you have to have that dialogue of how do you do those things that have dual capabilities. And weighs in that bin, all the way as i talked about before, from outer space to under the water. Sir . Peter sharpman, merrick corporation. The doctrine distinguished between intelligence gathering which we tried to prevent, but not deter, and outright attack, which we visibly and vocally deterred. In the realm of
And thats an understandable perspective if youre looking ahead sixth months. This is not the time to drop the strategic agenda. We should be thinking about what will happen when we come out of the cycle. Right now with things like low Interest Rates a light jpgs competitive advantage, this is the critical time to act. There are a lot of suggestions in the book, probably hundreds of them but i pulled ten that are still relevant right now that i think we ought to think about. We had to take care of business at home before we take care abroad. But there are five steps domestically that remain important. The first is investing in infrastructure. This is really the time as were building our economy where were investing in a smarter grid, or a safer grid, but also building out the Energy Transportation system for the country. We have great production and its not close to the command centers. We need a system of pipelines to move product to the southeast move oil east to west. And along with
With his capabilities. Many of us in Higher Education understood that as a challenge to us as well. I was wondering what Higher Education do to be more supportive and useful to you in your mission . Thank you. Thank you, doug. Coming from an institution like George Washington as i look at academia, i count on us having lots of dialogue associated with deterrence at large. Across the Broad Spectrum that i talked about, from the various areas. Nuclear, space cyberspace, but this business also of extremist organizations who would love to have in their hands a weapons of mass destruction, for example. And then talking about the art of deterrence and what do things can we have in the tool bag . Perhaps some of them are not so new, but to make sure they are being gone about as we go forward. Also, in our nation has a whole the education spectrum particularly in cyberspace. Everybody uses it in a big way but the vulnerabilities associated with things. I could go around and ask everybody to ra
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