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...Force officers at the Colorado Springs headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command, the combined-services organization set up last fall to run the continent's $18 billion air-defense system. Hailed in its early months as a model of interservice cooperation, by last week NORAD was proving itself something quite different: a classic example of the sort of interservice rivalry that President Eisenhower's defense-reorganization plan is designed to prevent...
...have a real organization, and it is on a war footing 24 hours a day," said a top NORAD officer last week. "But we have our troubles. If you even ask a simple question, such as who is in charge of the defense of North America, the argument starts." Another officer described NORAD more simply: "A monstrosity...
Alphabet Soup. NORAD, under the command of Four-Star Air Force General Earle Partridge, is a joint U.S.-Canadian venture (Partridge's second in command is Canada's Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon) with Air Force, Army and Navy each marked out for specific assignments, e.g., the Navy for seagoing radar pickets, the Air Force for intercepting enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice...
They frequently do just that. Items: ¶The Air Force last year cut NORAD's Air Force radar warning patrol for three months to meet cuts in its own maintenance and operation budget. ¶The Army recently decided not to man a $2 million NORAD radar station in Arizona. It also reduced the personnel of its Nike missile batteries. ¶The Navy last week pulled one of NORAD's radar picket ships off NORAD's early-warning patrol without prior notice to NORAD headquarters...
After reading your article on what the U.S. is spending on NORAD and the DEW line, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call the whole system the American IMAGINOT line...