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Live in the Middle East? Have an internet connection? Want to identify the planes above your head?

Let’s talk about tracking planes.

7 min readDec 30, 2020

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Live in the Middle East? Have an internet connection? Want to identify the planes above your head?

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Steffan Watkins

Correcting “Storm Clouds Gather Over Open Skies Treaty”

Trump admin officials pollute the media ecosystem, others spread their disinformation. Let’s learn from this.

12 min readOct 26, 2020

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Correcting “Storm Clouds Gather Over Open Skies Treaty”

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Steffan Watkins

No, the Russians did not fly over Trump’s golf course in 2017, no matter who said so.

Let’s review why that fact matters, and why it’s a huge Open Skies Treaty story.

12 min readAug 4, 2020

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No, the Russians did not fly over Trump’s golf course in 2017, no matter who said so.

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Steffan Watkins

Declassified Open Skies Treaty mission reports show over a decade of diplomacy and cooperation.

The documents, retrieved using Canada’s Access to Information Act, show over a decade of treaty flights; with no sign of Boris or Natasha.

5 min readJul 14, 2020

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Declassified Open Skies Treaty mission reports show over a decade of diplomacy and cooperation.

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Steffan Watkins

The RCAF sent twenty-four CF-188s South earlier this year for training.

Top Gun style.

8 min readApr 30, 2020

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The RCAF sent twenty-four CF-188s South earlier this year for training.

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Steffan Watkins

U.S. officials target U.S. ambassador with smear campaign, for positive Open Skies Treaty remarks.

A U.S. ambassador is being smeared in the media by current & former American gov‘t officials for his support of the Open Skies Treaty

5 min readMar 14, 2020

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U.S. officials target U.S. ambassador with smear campaign, for positive Open Skies Treaty remarks.

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Steffan Watkins

Do efforts to kill the Open Skies Treaty, and the al-Baghdadi raid, cross paths?

There have been a series of startling things in the media which have compelled me to document and draw attention to the timing of events…

8 min readMar 4, 2020

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Do efforts to kill the Open Skies Treaty, and the al-Baghdadi raid, cross paths?

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Steffan Watkins

Inside the U.S. Senate resolution to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty.

It’s a Gong Show.

21 min readMar 3, 2020

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Inside the U.S. Senate resolution to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty.

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Steffan Watkins

Open Skies Treaty Update, February 2020

An independent attempt to explain Vayl Oxford’s update to the House Armed Services Committee regarding the Open Skies Treaty.

10 min readFeb 20, 2020

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Open Skies Treaty Update, February 2020

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Steffan Watkins

Steffan Watkins

Steffan Watkins is a open source research consultant interested in the Open Skies Treaty and its implementation, among other things. #OpenSkiesTreaty

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