Joint Chiefs Chairman to Meet With Russian Counterpart in Azerbaijan<br />The meeting between Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,<br />and Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff, will take place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.<br />The Russians suggested that General Dunford come to Moscow or to Belarus for the meeting, American officials said.<br />Elissa Slotkin said that I think the American people need to understand what this administration’s<br />strategy is vis-à-vis Russia before we go intensifying the relationship,<br />During his confirmation hearings to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in July<br />2015, General Dunford described Russia in far more worrisome terms than has Mr. Trump.<br />Called the Gerasimov Doctrine, it held that the boundary between war and peace was increasingly hard to discern and<br />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.<br />General Dunford has spoken with General Gerasimov by phone, but this will be his first meeting.<br />15, 2017<br />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<br />that Moscow has violated a landmark arms control accord.
