The Canadian Press reports that Canadian CF-18 fighters supplemented USAF aircraft earlier this month by flying NORAD air defense patrols over the Alaskan coast during the first grounding of USAF’s F-15 fleet. (See above.) Those CF-18s have now returned to their home base in Bagotville. Quebec. An official with Canadian NORAD operations declined to go into numbers of aircraft or other specifics, saying, “We really don’t want to say very much in case they’re called on again.
The U.S. military needs to wake up to the fact that global dominance is no longer a viable strategy for national defense, because pursuing that unrealizable goal is making the country less safe, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said April 22. Emerging defense technologies like swarms of…