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North European and North Atlantic Defense: The Challenges Return

Put in simple terms, we need to shape a more integrated air and maritime force that can operate to
defend the maritime and air approaches to North America as well as North America itself.

We can look at the evolving threat as a ten o’clock and a two o’clock fight, because they originate
from the ten and two.

And the ten o’clock fight is primarily right now an aviation fight.

They’re moving capability there, but it’s nothing like what they have at the two o’clock fight.

The two o’clock fight is more of a maritime fight.

And he underscored the importance of Canada in shaping capabilities to work the challenges.

For 58 years, we have had a bi-national command, NORAD. The current government faces a set of
tough problems, not the least of which due to past governments not addressing re-capitalization.

FIGURE 30 THIS IS A NOTIONAL RENDERING OF THE 10 AND 2 O'CLOCK CHALLENGE. IT IS CREDITED TO SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE AND NOT IN
ANY WAY AN OFFICIAL RENDERING BY ANY AGENCY OF THE US GOVERNMENT. IT IS MEANT FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY. CREDIT:
SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE

Clearly, what they need to do is to recapitalize their air and maritime force, and preferably one that
can work together from the ground up as an integrated force.

I think NORAD needs to become a multi-domain command, and their forces could flow into that
command and out of that command as a key enabler.

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focuses-on-the-need-to-defend-north-america-at-the-ten-and-two-oclock-positions/

The current chief of staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lt. General Hood, provided his perspective on the
Canadian contribution to the challenges posed by Admiral Gortney, Lt. General Hood highlighted in a recent
interview that a key element of how Canada was shaping its approach to working the challenges and
working with allies was the modernization of their P-3, namely the Aurora CP-140.

While the UK, Norway, and the US Navy were adding new platforms, namely, the P-8 and in the case of the
US Navy the Triton, the Canadian Air Force was focused on the modernization of the brain of the P-3, and
Second Line of Defense

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