And there's two sides that we think about when we think risk mitigation. Something that I haven't really talked about is what are we doing on the risk mitigation front, and that's the ability for us to actually defend. And it is this avenue where we really need to work to close gaps and be able to protect the homeland more completely. And it's that ability for us to respond in kind and protect our homeland.īut as our adversaries have built the capability to strike us conventionally, they feel like that they have opportunity below the nuclear threshold to strike us and potentially keep that conflict from going nuclear. That nuclear deterrent is the underpinning of our entire deterrence model. There are opportunities for our adversaries to employ weapons from distances that they could strike critical infrastructure in the United States early in a conflict and create some challenges for us to produce our military power.Īnd when we look at our deterrence model, we've had a lot of capability since really World War II to have deterrence by punishment. So, the thing that I really want to emphasize here is that the homeland is not a sanctuary any longer. But as we look into threats from cyber actors, space threats, as well as kinetic conventional cruise missiles, which have significant improvement on the part of China and Russia in recent years, those create avenues that can create havoc in the homeland while we are trying to project our power forward to potentially a regional conflict. Our forward layers, our allies, our partners, our forward combatant commands and geographic commands, have largely kept those threats away from the United States. Our potential adversaries have created significant capacity to reach us asymmetrically. Struve took the place of Air Force Brigadier General Paul Murray, NORAD's Deputy Director of Operations, who had been "called into a four-star meeting," according to MDAA Chairman and Founder Riki Ellison. Air Force Colonel Kristopher Struve, the vice director of operations for NORAD, discussed domestic critical infrastructure defense during a virtual roundtable on air and missile defense that the Missile Defense Advocacy Association (MDAA) hosted yesterday.
officials sounding similar alarms bells in recent years - but it is a less common public acknowledgment about the limitations of existing defenses within the continental United States. He said that the growing ability of potential adversaries to launch long-range conventional strikes, especially using advanced air, sea, and submarine-launched cruise missiles, has prompted new concerns about threats to the homeland, which is "not a sanctuary any longer." This is just the latest example of U.S.
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A senior officer at the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, says the command is actively engaged in discussions about how to optimize air-defense capabilities, including ground-based surface-to-air missiles, to protect domestic critical infrastructure in a crisis.
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