NEWSWATCH Wall Street Journal: Defense Chief: Subversion, ‘Big Lie’ Are in Russia’s Arsenal. Ash Carter favors more military exercises, better intelligence sharing

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[Wall Street Journal – Defense Chief: Subversion, ‘Big Lie’ Are in Russia’s Arsenal. Ash Carter favors more military exercises, better intelligence sharing – GORDON LUBOLD – June 6, 2015]

The Wall Street Journal covers remarks by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter after a European trip to discuss Russia and the crisis in Ukraine.

Mr. Carter made clear at the end of an 11-day overseas trip that he believes more must be done to change Moscow’s behavior in Eastern Europe after it moved to annex the region of Crimea from Ukraine and backed a violent civil war.

‘It’s a mixture of subversion and sophisticated threat making, manipulation of information, the big lie—all this cocktail that we saw in Ukraine,’ Mr. Carter said.
He favors more military exercises, better intelligence sharing among countries and more resources for the region, saying Russian aggression would be ‘an enduring challenge.’

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