Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Top U.S. General: ‘The Homeland Is No Longer A Sanctuary’

NORAD Command Center, Cheyenne Mountain, Colo. (Air Force)

Military Times: ‘The homeland is no longer a sanctuary’ amid rising near-peer threats, NORTHCOM commander says

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. “homeland is no longer a sanctuary,” according to the four-star general in charge of both U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.

Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy ended a speech at the 140th National Guard Association conference in New Orleans this weekend with a warning that the era of great power competition doesn’t leave the U.S. mainland uncontested.

Peer-level adversaries are probing U.S. defenses in multiple domains, and the continental United States is well within their sights.

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WNU Editor: Truth be told .... the U.S. homeland has never been a sanctuary. The former Soviet Union had the ability to hit all targets in the U.S. during the Cold War, and 9/11 showed everyone that the U.S. was not immune to major terror attacks.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the earth is doomed people all there is, is your holy soul.

Stephen Davenport said...

They can hit us but cannot take us and we can strike back.