concern that they are also engaging in intelligence gathering, to see how admiral gortney s fighter jets respond. let s talk more about this with former nato supreme allied commander general wesley clark, author of don t wait for the next war. a retired four star general. sir, thank you for being here. this seems like a pretty dire warning from the admiral. russian missiles in range of the u.s. kh-101s. if they go operational, what then? could that spark a new arms race of some sort? well they will go operational. there s no doubt about that. and yes, there is an arms race that s coming. we just have to face the fact that russia is coming back. under vladimir putin as president obama said he s got a foot firmly in the soviet past. all these bomber patrols are part of putin s strategy. he wants to rebuild the soviet