Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Steven Pifer, a senior adviser with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Nimitz Flyover Raises Cold War Questions."
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Steven Pifer, a senior adviser with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Nimitz Flyover Raises Cold War Questions."
When a Russian bomber roared over a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific this week, ears pricked up all over Washington: Cold War? [. . .]
"They now have more money to do these sorts of operations, when they were hard pressed to do them say ten or even five years ago," said Steven Pifer, a former US ambassador to Ukraine and now a senior associate at the RAND Corp.
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