NORAD is unique - it is a joint command. The NORAD agreement requires the commander and deputy to from different countries (practically, it's always been a American commander and Canadian deputy). The agreement also requires integrated and binational staff. NORAD itself is responsible for aerospace warning, and aerospace control. It exercises aerospace control by having operational control (though not ownership) of national units.
When the article talks about Canadian officers serving as deputy corps commanders, that's referring to Canadian participants in exchange programs. The US military has exchange programs which do 1:1 exchanges with allied forces. For example, a Canadian might end up as as a US deputy division or corps officer, and an American might end up as a Canadian brigade staff officer or deputy commander. The exchange programs are part of a broader American program to build military-military ties, increase interoperability, and maybe grant unique perspectives.
NORAD spots must be filled, and will be filled. It just means that you're probably not getting the best or most motivated candidates anymore. The exchange slots will probably whittle away.
> anti-Canadian sentiment whipped up by Trump might make the country inhospitable
It's not Americans who are being whipped up against Canadians, and it never has been.
Are Americans "inhospitable" to Canadians now? Or more the reverse?
Today tensions are highest, but even if Trump is the source, he's far from the cause.
It's like the Mad Men scene where the junior blows up, enumerates to Don everything wrong with him and Don blandly reacts "I don't think about you at all"
the Canadians have reacted with restraint to someone, as in arguably the most powerful person in the world, ranting about conquering them as the 51st state and then petulantly slapping random illegal tariffs on goods from there when they didn’t roll over and play dead.
Canadians haven't reacted with restraint to Americans in the decades I've been aware of the divide, and this time there has been no restraint at all.
Canadian politicians and media are pursuing a strategy: it's arguable whether it's clever or foolhardy, but what's not arguable is whether it's restrained.
There's a cultural reason why "look how ignorant and stupid Americans are" has been staple Canadian comedy since the latter half of the 20th century. And it has nothing to do with America.
One of the great things about Americans, by the way, is being able to shrug, maybe chuckle along, and let it be for going on decades. That's what comes from being a first-rate global power. Game of Thrones reminded us "the wolf does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep".
And the power dynamic here is such that the analogy is apt.
NORAD is unique - it is a joint command. The NORAD agreement requires the commander and deputy to from different countries (practically, it's always been a American commander and Canadian deputy). The agreement also requires integrated and binational staff. NORAD itself is responsible for aerospace warning, and aerospace control. It exercises aerospace control by having operational control (though not ownership) of national units.
When the article talks about Canadian officers serving as deputy corps commanders, that's referring to Canadian participants in exchange programs. The US military has exchange programs which do 1:1 exchanges with allied forces. For example, a Canadian might end up as as a US deputy division or corps officer, and an American might end up as a Canadian brigade staff officer or deputy commander. The exchange programs are part of a broader American program to build military-military ties, increase interoperability, and maybe grant unique perspectives.
NORAD spots must be filled, and will be filled. It just means that you're probably not getting the best or most motivated candidates anymore. The exchange slots will probably whittle away.
Joined implies that each of the participants has an equal say or vote in any decisions both small and especially large.
Did the former members of the allies get a vote when they were handed to Stalin by FDR ?
If you want something more recent, did the Persian Gulf allies get informed or a vote in the recent war about preemptive strikes ?
We all know that the Canadians never have any serious ability to veto any action. The only equality is that Canadians are expected to die when told.
If Russian influence was controlling NORAD, what would they do differently?
It was a serious question.
They would track Santa Claus on the night of December 5th, or by the Julian Calendar, instead of Christmas Eve!
http://archive.today/95dG5
> anti-Canadian sentiment whipped up by Trump might make the country inhospitable
It's not Americans who are being whipped up against Canadians, and it never has been.
Are Americans "inhospitable" to Canadians now? Or more the reverse?
Today tensions are highest, but even if Trump is the source, he's far from the cause.
It's like the Mad Men scene where the junior blows up, enumerates to Don everything wrong with him and Don blandly reacts "I don't think about you at all"
>even if Trump is the source, he's far from the cause
What does this mean?
Even if an itchy bug bite is the source, treating it with acid and a flamethrower is the cause of the afflicted person's problem
But that’s an irrelevant analogy.
the Canadians have reacted with restraint to someone, as in arguably the most powerful person in the world, ranting about conquering them as the 51st state and then petulantly slapping random illegal tariffs on goods from there when they didn’t roll over and play dead.
> the Canadians have reacted with restraint
Canadians haven't reacted with restraint to Americans in the decades I've been aware of the divide, and this time there has been no restraint at all.
Canadian politicians and media are pursuing a strategy: it's arguable whether it's clever or foolhardy, but what's not arguable is whether it's restrained.
> https://youtu.be/7ZE0TuKTpo4
There's a cultural reason why "look how ignorant and stupid Americans are" has been staple Canadian comedy since the latter half of the 20th century. And it has nothing to do with America.
One of the great things about Americans, by the way, is being able to shrug, maybe chuckle along, and let it be for going on decades. That's what comes from being a first-rate global power. Game of Thrones reminded us "the wolf does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep".
And the power dynamic here is such that the analogy is apt.
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