{"id":28263,"date":"2014-10-15T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28263"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:05:52","slug":"norad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/norad\/","title":{"rendered":"NORAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the RCAF website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve watched action, drama or even science fiction movies and TV shows over the past 50 years, chances are pretty good that you\u2019ve at least heard of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command.<\/p>\n

Often, it\u2019s depicted as a massive operations room with radar screens, uniformed personnel manning various stations and star-studded generals directing all the action. Every Christmas Eve, it\u2019s the means by which millions of children get regular reports on Santa\u2019s progress as he journeys around the world.<\/p>\n

Outside of pop culture, however, NORAD is a real military entity. But what is it, and what do we really know about it? More importantly for Canadians, what impact does it have on Canada?<\/p>\n

While NORAD is often depicted in film and television as an American entity, it is in fact a joint United States-Canada defence partnership charged with aerospace warning and control for both countries. What this means is that NORAD detects and advises both governments about airborne threats to North America (aerospace warning) and takes action to deter and defend against those threats (aerospace control).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it comes down to, essentially, is that Canada and the U.S. have airspace over our respective territories, and we should be in control of who enters it and how they conduct themselves in it,\u201d explained Colonel Patrick Carpentier, the Canadian deputy commander of the Alaskan NORAD Region.<\/p>\n

NORAD\u2019s commander is directly and equally responsible to both the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada. While it\u2019s no secret that Canada and the U.S. enjoy a very close alliance, NORAD is truly unique in the world \u2014 no other two countries have an arrangement quite like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the RCAF website: If you\u2019ve watched action, drama or even science fiction movies and TV shows over the past 50 years, chances are pretty good that you\u2019ve at least heard of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Often, it\u2019s depicted as a massive operations room with radar screens, uniformed personnel manning various stations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,13],"tags":[145,316,214],"class_list":["post-28263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","category-usa","tag-airforce","tag-borders","tag-rcaf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2hpV6-norad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28264,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263\/revisions\/28264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}