Canadian NORAD Commander on post 9/11 challenges

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This article appears to be an old one, but I haven't seen it until just the other day after James B. at SLC posted a troofer site that specifically accuses Canadian Lt. General Eric Findley of being one of the masterminds behind 9/11 and I went looking for real information on General Findley.

I have often been asked, if I were authorized, would I have engaged a passenger aircraft on that day? I’ve said I hoped I never got into that situation because there’s no question in my mind that you’d be interviewing me from a jail cell. We did not have the rules of engagement that we have today. Now we have very clear rules as to who is allowed to do what, who’s allowed to authorize what, and who takes action. We had that on 9/11, but it was for a different threat.

We learned that we’re now in a marathon. NORAD was designed for a sprint – we would fight whoever was threatening North America, fight furiously and well, but do it for a very short and finite period of time. We’ve been in this fight for five years – 43,000 sorties as part of Operation Noble Eagle – and we’re learning how to make NORAD more effective and more efficient.
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Troofers will find this paragraph particularly "exciting":

NORAD transformed on 9/11. We knew we had a new world mission. We have a new plan, and we measure its effectiveness by exercising. We run two major exercises a year now, and I run at least one exercise a week to ensure our understanding of these complex scenarios, to find the gaps and holes.
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What a wonderful "get-out-of-debate" free card for intellectually lazy troofers (as if there are any other kind :p ). Now there can never be another terrorist attack that they won't be able to blame on "The Man", because there will always have been a NORAD drill within a week of the incident.
 
*chases the thread back onto the rails*

To me, this is probably a perfect article to illustrate how thinking has changed from "pre-9/11 logic" to "post 9/11 logic".

It also backs up the fact that what happened on 9/11 was something that NORAD had no plans or procedures for what happend that day. Rather, NORAD was setup, and planned for, a completly different set of events.

A very interesting read and thanks for the link as I had not seen it before myself either.
 
Indeed, and excellent article and squarely hits the nail on the head in terms of NORAD mission past and present. It is truly a shame that troofers can not read this and understand some of the reasons NORAD didn't prevent the Pentagon attack on 9/11. I really don't believe they would have prevented the NYC attack regardless, as the aircraft were not know to have been hostile until after that attack was over.

They have a challenge and it sounds as if Gen. Findley is prepared to meet that challenge along with the rest of NORAD. I was surprised about the helicopter involvement as I personally hadn't thought about a slow mover type attack. Plus, that gives us better opportunity to prevent sea attacks, as well.

Thanks for posting that article!
 
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