U.S. military officials recently appeared to question American participation in the Treaty on Open Skies. At a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on February 24, Admiral Cecil D. Haney, commander of Strategic Command, testified that he was “concerned in terms of overflights of any ability of another nation to learn more about our overall critical infrastructure.”
This followed on the heels of the Russian submission of a request to equip its Tu-154 Open Skies surveillance aircraft with digital electro-optical sensors. At a House Armed Services committee hearing on March 2, Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testified …read more
Source: Brookings