DoD:
Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northcom, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington about the role both agencies play in homeland defense.
While he embraces cooperation in the Arctic, O’Shaughnessy said, care must be taken not to let potential adversaries take advantage of that cooperation. “The rules-based international order [that’s] alive and well in the rest of the world has to be applied with that same template in the Arctic,” he said.
As avenues of navigation open in the Arctic region, so to do avenues of approach to the United States, O’Shaughnessy noted, so the United States, and Northcom in particular, must remain vigilant and prepared.