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.
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"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."
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