POWER, URGENCY, WILL
Mattis told Stephen Hadley, the moderator of the event and former national security adviser to President George W. Bush, that in setting up the strategy, officials looked at threats from three different angles: power, urgency and will.
"In terms of raw power right now, I look at Russia and the nuclear arsenal they have," he said. "I look at their activities over the last 10 years from Georgia and Crimea to the Donetsk Basin to Syria and I can go on and on and on. In terms of just power, I think it is Russia that we have to look at and address."
November 1, 2018