Dr. Stephen Blank

Dr. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Outcome of the “Russian Reset”
• Moscow’s ambition to reconstitute a neo-imperialist state
• Putin’s exploitation of existing cracks within Europe 

(PART TWO):

• Russian modernization of air, ground, sea and ballistic missile capabilities
• Militarization of the Arctic Sea
• Violation of treaties
• Putin’s “leap forward”

(PART THREE):

• Vice Admiral Foggo’s warnings of increased Russian submarine activity
• Lack of a U.S. response to aggression from the Kremlin
• “Escalate to Deescalate” doctrine
• Has Russia been testing low-yield nuclear weapons?
• Hypersonic delivery systems for ICBMs

(PART FOUR):

• Use of energy in economic warfare
• Russian use of information technology to manipulate the mass media