Gen. Glen VanHerck discusses his updated NORAD & USNORTHCOM strategy.

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Recently I released our strategy for NORAD and Northern Command. Both the unclassified executive summary and the full classified strategy outlined the shared vision and unity of effort between our two commands. The strategic principles and enduring conditions defined in the strategy directly support both the United States National Defense Strategy and Canada’s strong, secure and engaged defense policy. The security of our two nations is increasingly at risk as our global competitors increase their activity, their capabilities and capacity to threaten North America and our allies and partners, our competitors actions are global. They are not encumbered by our regional commanding control boundaries and they continue to rapidly advanced technology development in order to hold Canada and the United States at risk across all regions and in all domains, our competitors have analyzed our ability to operate overseas and have invested in capabilities to offset our strengths while exploiting our perceived vulnerabilities. Whether the threats come from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, violent extremist organizations or transnational criminal organizations challenges persist. The global environment requires a culture change that factors homeland defense and the risk of strategic deterrence failure into every strategy plan, force management and force design, decision as well as all aspects of acquisitions and budget so we can deter in competition de-escalating crisis and if required, defeating conflict, resulting in the sustained, successful defense of Canada and the United States. To address the challenges we face in a renewed era of global competition, we must be ready for crisis and conflict while balancing the need to return to global all domain competition This time with two nuclear armed peer competitors. This approach requires four strategic principles to include all domain awareness, information dominance and decision superiority that are building blocks under an umbrella of global integration. To achieve our enduring conditions in support of our nation’s interest. Our long term goals are expressed as enduring conditions that will guide our actions. These enduring conditions include defending our homelands from threats and adversary influence, outpacing our competitors to ensure our military advantage is expanding and not eroding, strengthening our mission partnerships and finally providing civil authorities with rapid flexible response options. We must address all threats to our nation’s project power forward and support our allies around the globe. We, as the department must accelerate our efforts to transform our culture to think globally, including our force, design, force development and acquisition processes so we can be more effective in posturing are commands and shaping operational conditions that are successful in meeting future challenges. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.