Joint Chiefs Chairman to Meet With Russian Counterpart in Azerbaijan
The meeting between Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff, will take place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
The Russians suggested that General Dunford come to Moscow or to Belarus for the meeting, American officials said.
Elissa Slotkin said that I think the American people need to understand what this administration’s
strategy is vis-à-vis Russia before we go intensifying the relationship,
During his confirmation hearings to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in July
2015, General Dunford described Russia in far more worrisome terms than has Mr. Trump.
Called the Gerasimov Doctrine, it held that the boundary between war and peace was increasingly hard to discern and
that the use of proxies and covert tactics would increase in "nonlinear war." Military officials would not provide details of what General Dunford planned to discuss.
General Dunford has spoken with General Gerasimov by phone, but this will be his first meeting.
15, 2017
WASHINGTON — The nation’s top military officer will try to reopen a military dialogue with his Russian counterpart on Thursday amid tensions over Russia’s harassment of American warships, stepped-up fighting in eastern Ukraine and accusations
that Moscow has violated a landmark arms control accord.
