Fisher: Past threats, future danger – war games also about remembering

Trondheim, Norway – As Canadians at home were gearing up for Remembrance Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to give NATO a poke in the eye.
It was the eve of the biggest NATO war games since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he threatened to launch missiles into the middle of a 65-vessel western naval battle group that included an aircraft carrier, assault ships and four Canadian warships.
The missile launch turned out to be a bluff but a Russian long-range reconnaissance