Peace . I think that we want a democratic ukraine and we want respect for international borders. The challenge is, how do you clearly articulate it and what is the strategy link to the policy . What are the methods and mechanisms used to advance that. That gets to your point and how you encourage the democratic ukraine. That is probably where the answer is and, when the linkage is correct, you will have a clearly articulated policy towards the areas. Yeah, it our second consideration came from western europe and Eastern European countries. They need to know where the u. S. Stands on a lot of things. The baltic state, it does not matter which path is chosen and they were concerned and everybody understands, if you if russia takes a next step, they need the content and the clarity. We have a couple of International Fellows saying russia is part of europe, whether we like it or not. It is. So, yeah. Good morning. I am a college grad. As a strategist, there are a couple of things and i wan
Fidelity or granularity during the q a period. During the war game, russia was able to operate with more flexibility and options. The russian team had a lot more options. They were less constrained by international norms, laws, alliances. For instance, during one of our turns, russia was able to delay armor and troops along the border, and this was cast as a defensive move or posture, and what it was was an overly aggressive move. Which leads me to the second point. Russia operates with a far more robust informational operations campaign. Their io was remarked by one of the participants as they more or less recognized propaganda. Oftentimes, russia was able to spin a particular narrative that the west could not easily counter, or if they did attempt to counter, it took a bit of lead time in order to gather the facts and figures in order to put forth more of a truthful message. Again, alluding to the first point, the russian team was more flexible in how they reacted to most of the scen
University of central arkansas. Finally to my far right last and harming this, is Lieutenant Colonel karen she is a strategic Intelligence Officer with experience ranging from the tactical to the strategic level. With that, let me turn the floor over to colonel hoy who will introduce the program. Thank you very much for hosting us today. Good morning to everybody. I will explain a little bit about where we come from and why we are sitting on this table. What led to this. First of all, we are five or six students from the u. S. Army war college. The six students were already moving to its new assignment in europe so that he could not be here. So we are actually five of six. We are in the u. S. Army war college but we are in a special program called the call are the carlyle scholars program. We do the curriculum in four months instead of 89 months. So we have got more time to do research, to do engagements with think tanks or the state department. We started in october 2014. I will not g
All the elements of russian power, the dime concept i think were all familiar with as an acronym, in order to bring about that restoration and preservation of his power, and the point of this whole operation, therefore is not to achieve some final state but to develop these tools as you have called them, instruments of power, others would say. In order to keep the game going because that is how russia sees the world as being in any case. And second, this is the the only way that it can maximize what is the condition of its great power and the regime at home that is a fully independent, sovereign great power, which is what it says it is and wants to be recognized as. But that doesnt have to answer to anybody either at home or abroad. And thats the strategic objective. I think that things thus become much more clear to the analysts, and i think theyll become clearer to you and you can overcome the clim ma of whether hes a tactician or a strategist. The tactics serve the objective and the
That at the currently the distraction of the ukraine prevents the cooperation. And so once that crisis is solved, then we can go back into cooperative mode. And so that conflict or that competition overshadows a lot of those areas where we can cooperate. Look at the meeting two weeks ago between secretary kerry and putin. Nothing we walked away saying it was good that we talked. But there were no agreements substantive agreements that came out of that meeting. Because of this competitive environment that were in, weve got to solve this one major competitive issue before i think well start to see fruits and other areas of cooperation. If i may address the u. S. Side of that, the systems sort of an emerging view within the context of the war game was on the u. S. Side that the russia system was fundamentally different from the u. S. System. Russians as weve already mentioned, we per seevd it to have a much greater freedom of action. But theres a degree of cronyism and corruption that was