Some things fly underneath the radar, both figuratively and literally.
A Canadian expert on Russian warfare says he believes a direct line can be drawn between Moscow's repeated testing of the airspace belonging to NATO allies in Eastern Europe and the Pentagon's recent, quietly announced plan to cut security assistance to the Baltic states.
Sean Maloney, a Royal Military College history professor, said he believes what we've witnessed in Eastern Europe over the last couple of weeks is ripped straight out of the old Cold War playbook.
"This is part of the ongoing information war directed at us, designed to undermine our will … to understand our will to resist Russian objectives throughout Europe and elsewhere," Maloney said.
It's been generally accepted by defence analysts that Moscow's recent actions in Estonia, Poland and Romania — and possibly Latvia as well — are all part of a pattern to probe allied air defences, but Maloney said it's important to take in the wider political
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