Opinion: Do Not Give Up Open Skies Leadership

aircraft reconnaissance missions
OC-135 aircraft reconnaissance missions can be planned within a day—making it difficult for Russia to hide events from observation.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
In a move former CIA Director Michael Hayden called “insane,” President Donald Trump decided on May 21 to withdraw from a little-known arms control agreement called the Open Skies Treaty. This agreement, negotiated in the early 1990s between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries and brought into force in...

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