By J. Michael Waller
While President Obama is conferring with Russian President Vladimir
Putin at the G-20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, current and
retired senior American intelligence officials fear he is blind to a
growing threat from a resurgent Russia.
These officials say that
Moscow continues to probe America's skies and seas with bombers and
submarines, both to assert itself and to see just how far Russia can
push Obama. In June 2012, Russian strategic nuclear bombers broke
protocol and conducted maneuvers in the Arctic without alerting the U.S.
A
month later a Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bomber, capable of
carrying nuclear-armed cruise missiles, entered American airspace off
Alaska and California. Then in August, a stealthy Russian Akula-class
attack submarine, designed to hunt and sink American subs, patrolled for
weeks off Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
