A joint patrol conducted by the US and Canadian militaries in the Arctic highlights the strong integration between the two forces despite some political tensions.
Those two countries staged a joint patrol in the Arctic near the coast of Alaska last July for the first time. U.S. Gen. Gregory Guillot told The Canadian Press in a year interview that it potentially takes decades for two nations’ militaries to reach “full integration” at a level like the U.S. and Canada. “We see it right now as coordinated, meaning that they can safely operate in the same area (but) not near the level of integration that the Canadian Forces and the U.S. Forces have,” he said.
“As they continue to operate up there more, it certainly has our attention and it’s something we watched very closely.” Norad’s strategic competitors — Russia, China, North Korea and Iran — have had an “unprecedented level of transactional coordination back and forth between them really for the first time,” he noted. Canada has been on the outs politically over the past year with U.S. officials for falling behind its NATO pledge on defence spending. While that’s a conflict that will only ratchet up in 2025 as Donald Trump assumes the presidency, Guillot said this incident highlighted the deep ties between the two militaries. “2024 has been an outstanding year for Canada to U.S. military-to-military relationships,” he said, pointing to how CF-18s and the U.S.’s F-16s and F-35s coordinated to deal with the July incident.“The Canadians just happened to be operating out of Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, and were able to switch to the Norad role and respond with us. That you can only do if you have years and years of fully integrated training.”He said there was a slight uptick this past year in Russian activity alone, with one notable incident in late September when Russian bombers were spotted off Alaska, though not into American or Canadian sovereign airspace.When an F-16 fighter moved to intercept one of the bombers, it manoeuvred too close to the U.S. aircraf
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