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Is Putin Performing a ‘Crazy Ivan’? A New Cold War Stirs

Posted under Poland, Anti-Missile Shield, Crazy Ivan, Czech Republic, NATO, Putin, Sergei Ivanov, Russia on February 22nd, 2007 by Richard Buchanan3 Comments

The term ‘Crazy Ivan‘ was made famous by Tom Clancy’s first novel - ‘The Hunt for Red October‘ - published in 1984 and the subsequent blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
The term, as called out by Sonar Operator Seaman Jones [Courtney B. Vance], is (or was) used by the U.S. Navy to describe […]