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Red Atlantic: Russia Could Choke Air, Sea Lanes To Europe
2016-09-23
NATIONAL HARBOR: Russia could hinder US reinforcements headed to Europe in the event of a major war, warned the recently retired Supreme Allied Commander, Gen. Philip Breedlove. It’s well known Russian radars, missiles, and strike planes -- "Anti-Access/Area Denial" systems -- threaten ships and aircraft across wide swathes of the Black Sea, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic. But Gen. Breedlove's worries are on a wider scale: He's anxious about the Atlantic.
Red Storm Rising, thirty years later...
"If we are in a shooting war with a big nation to the east, do you believe you will cross the Atlantic uncontested, either in the air or on the sea?" Breedlove asked rhetorically at the Air Force Association conference here.

"The unobstructed crossing of the Atlantic to fight a war on the land mass in Europe, I think, is a thing of the past," Breedlove told me and a reporter from Russian agency RIA after his AFA remarks. "We need to think about our ability to defend our capability to reinforce Europe."
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#6  The soviets are cheering for global warming to open the 'NorthEast' ice passage.

Russian scientists were among the first to point out that global warming had halted -- about a decade ago, if I recall correctly. It's hard to miss when your frozen north isn't thawing.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-09-23 19:14  

#5  The soviets are cheering for global warming to open the 'NorthEast' ice passage.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-09-23 11:58  

#4  The 80s called.

Back in the day, people would buy the board games Red Storm Rising and The Hunt for Red October; where your reinforcements from USA depended upon the battle for the Atlantic.

"The unobstructed crossing of the Atlantic to fight a war on the land mass in Europe, I think, is a thing of the past,"

Yeah, 1914. What is the quip? Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it....those who do are doomed to watch it happen again.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-09-23 10:38  

#3  This feels like the "fighting the last war" syndrome that I've heard about for years & years from people that seem to know.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-09-23 08:34  

#2  Sounds like the Euros need a first class navy. Given the lead time to delivery, they better get hot on it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-09-23 07:46  

#1  Should've read some history before bombing Serbia or building NATO bases in Russian "near abroad". If you'd left them alone, they'd (probably) break up by now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-23 03:42  

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