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Topic: Northern Command

	USATODAY.com - 'One-stop' agency coordinates defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Northern Command was created as a homeland defense response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
		The Northern Command's emblem is a round insignia emblazoned with an eagle bearing a shield to protect the North American continent.
		Northern Command already is conducting drills based on scenarios such as attacks on seaports and other forms of transportation.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-09-30-northerncommand-usat_x.htm (613 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		In the eyes of some observers, Northern Command's multiservice response to the Columbia disaster testified to the wisdom of Rumsfeld's decision to create a new combatant command with dual responsibility for defense of the United States and for providing U.S. military assistance to civil authorities during domestic emergencies.
		In addition to serving as Northern Command's first commander, Eberhart is the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the binational command assigned the mission of aerospace warning and control for Canada, Alaska, and the continental United States.
		Although separate commands, NORAD and Northern Command work together to provide air defenses for North America, the NORAD area of operations, and the balance of the Northern Command's area of responsibility.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/mar_03_48.php (2137 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'We cannot fail' — Northern Command now ready for domestic defense
		On Thursday, command troops monitored soldiers sent to fight fires in Montana, prepared for the potential landfall of Hurricane Isabel and watched for potential threats on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
		When the command was formed, leaders were given only days to get to Colorado, rather than the typical six months, and were told to worry about moving their families later, McFann said.
		With three training exercises behind it, Northern Command is still improving areas — such as speed for completing tasks — exposed during a $2 million disaster drill in Nevada last month, McFann said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,510053630,00.html (629 words)

	Israeli Northern Command chief retires - Military Photos
		Northern command chief, Major-General Udi Adam, informed the IDF chief of staff Wednesday morning of his request to be relieved of his duty at the earliest convenience.
		One of the prominent candidates to replace the northern command chief is Major-General Gadi Eisnkot, head of the Operational Directorate.
		Adam, head of the northern command responsible for securing the Israel-Lebanon border, asked to leave his post as soon as possible, the army said in a statement.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=91307 (1304 words)

	DefenseLINK News: U.S. Northern Command Setup Becomes Clearer
		It is different from operational control, which allows commanders to use forces that have been trained and are supported by someone else.
		Wearing his Northern Command hat, he has operational control of the U.S. contributions to the joint U.S.-Canadian defense organization.
		In addition, the command serves as the liaison with lead federal agencies and supports those agencies in the event of an attack.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Aug2002/n08142002_200208147.html (440 words)

	Israeli Northern Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Israeli Northern Command (Hebrew: פיקוד צפון, Pikud Tzafon, often abbreviated to Patzan) is the Israel Defense Forces regional command responsible for the northern front with Syria and Lebanon.
		The Northern Command commands regional units from Mount Hermon in the north, to Netanya in the south, with a significant presence in the Galilee and the Golan Heights.
		On August 8, 2006, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Moshe Kaplinsky was appointed to the Northern Command as "representative of the General Staff to the Northern Command," in response to criticism by the government over the Command's handling of the conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israeli_Northern_Command (382 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brig.-Gen. Avi Ashkenazi, head of the Reserve division in the Northern Command was appointed to head a committee to investigate the events that led to the deadly attack and the abductions of the two soldiers on the northern border
		Ashkenazi was appointed by the Northern Command chief, a slightly irregular move.
		IDF officials clarified that the committee headed by Ashkenazi (who is also the commanding officer of the Company Commanders School) will center its investigation only on aspects relating to the Northern Command but not to other internal IDF aspects.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3275153,00.html (404 words)

	US Northern Command and Hurricane Rita
		Northern Command would, as part of its mandate in the case of a national emergency, oversee a number of civilian functions:
		Northern Command, rather than the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is already slated to play a central role in overseeing the emergency operation, namely the military will intervene directly in civilian affairs under procedures which have already been carefully laid out in a number of official documents.
		President Bush is the Commander in Chief and what is unfolding at the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs is the planning behind closed doors of a major military operation on US soil.
	www.prisonplanet.com /Pages/Sept05/240905Northcom.htm (1523 words)

	MILNET: U.S. Military Command Structure - October 2002
		The remaining Unified commands are functional commands with specialities that are implicit in their names, such as transportation, combat, space, special ops and the like.
		The new command structure adds (as the tenth Unified Command) for the first time since the end of World War II, a command for the U.S. homeland, Northern Command.
		Northern Command will be responsible for Alaska, the continental U.S., as well as 500 miles along coastlines and Northern Mexico and Caribbean.
	www.milnet.com /us-mil-commands.htm (732 words)

	U.S. Northern Command - Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The establishment of the new combatant command was part of the greatest transformation of the Unified Command Plan since its inception in 1947, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld when he announced the establishment of USNORTHCOM April 17, 2002.
		The defense of Hawaii and U.S. territories and possessions in the Pacific is the responsibility of U.S. Pacific Command.
		The defense of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is the responsibility of U.S. Southern Command.
	www.northcom.mil /newsroom/news_release/2006/100206_a.htm (430 words)

	India - Army Northern Command Order of Battle
		The Northern Command is based in Udhampur and consists of three Corps, the XIV, XV, and XVI.
		Northern Command now controls this sensitive region of the country which covers the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir and contiguous portions of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.
		Today, the command complements to the nation's efforts in countering the most serious challenge to her security, namely, the scourge of terrorism and proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/northcom.htm (1082 words)

	U.S. Northern Command - SourceWatch
		U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was established in 2002 by the Department of Defense to consolidate under a single unified command existing missions that were previously executed by other military organizations.
		"The new command was given responsibility for the continental United States, Canada, Mexico, portions of the Caribbean and the contiguous waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans up to 500 miles off the North American coastline.
		In a March 13, 2003, briefing General Ralph E. Eberhart, commander of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, described to members of the House Armed Services Committee "how USNORTHCOM and other organizations counter threats to homeland security...
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=U.S._Northern_Command (705 words)

	Northern Command: the Pentagon's "Homeland Defense" agency (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Northern Command was established in 2002 to fill in the gap.
		As it knits together a new command for the defense of North America, the Pentagon is having to unravel a tangle of special interests, ranging from Canada and Congress to the Coast Guard and the Governors.
		Eberhart's Colorado-based command is charged with enhancing homeland security in two ways: by improving the military's capability to defend the country's borders, coasts and airspace -- unquestionably within the military's long-established mission -- and by providing "military assistance to civil authorities" when authorized by the secretary of Defense or the president.
	www.oilempire.us.cob-web.org:8888 /northcom.html (8410 words)

	U.S. Northern Command (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) stood up Oct. 1, 2002, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The NORTHCOM commander is responsible for homeland defense and also serve as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a U.S.-Canada command.
		The new command is tasked with defense planning and security cooperation for other nations in its area of responsibility.
		The command's mission is the preparation for, prevention of, deterrence of, preemption of, defense against, and response to threats and aggression directed towards U.S. territory, sovereignty, domestic population, and infrastructure; as well as crisis management, consequence management, and other domestic civil support.
	www.globalsecurity.org.cob-web.org:8888 /military/agency/dod/northcom.htm (2487 words)

	NORTHCOM: Questions and Answers on the Eve of Implementation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Third, we need a Northern Command because the combatant command ensures unified action – a unity of effort with the actions of supporting combatant commands, other military forces (i.e., multinational operations), other federal departments or agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a Department of Homeland Security, and non-governmental organizations.
		Northern Command can plan, coordinate, exercise command and control, and supervise the execution of the federal military response to external threats and aggression, as well as emergency and extraordinary domestic circumstances where the Secretary of Defense has approved military support to civil authorities.
		U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility will include air, land and sea approaches and encompasses the continental United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the surrounding water out to approximately 500 nautical miles.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HomelandDefense/wm152.cfm (2291 words)

	EETimes.com - Northern Command begins training exercises
		COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Northern Command, which is expected to rely on electronic intelligence and is scheduled to be activated Oct. 1, gave an overview of its initial activities Wednesday (Aug. 14) in preparation for large-scale validation exercises next month.
		The command's specific responsibilities for electronic intelligence and computer warfare are still to be decided, said Capt. Ned Carroll, deputy chief of staff for the Northern Command.
		What is clear, however, is that Northern Command will have to deal with local, state and federal civilian agencies through the Secretary of Defense or the president, and only through their direction.
	www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20020814S0037 (685 words)

	NORAD; Northern Command; NorCom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Northern Command also has a joint task force based in Texas that monitors the Mexican border for smugglers.
		The exercise is designed to challenge the Commander Canadian Forces Northern Area (CFNA) and his staff as an operational-level headquarters in a domestic operation.
		The commander is responsible for land, aerospace and sea defenses of the United States.
	www.cybertime.net /~ajgood/forces4.html (1334 words)

	CSIndy: Command Central (September 5, 2002)
		While Northern Command will bring an estimated 500 military jobs to Colorado Springs, according to Maj. Barry Venable, more will be lost with the departure of the U.S. Space Command.
		Larsen says one of his main questions about Northern Command is what the relationships will be between the command and local officials.
		He also wonders what the command's intelligence role will be, and whether there will be sharing of intelligence between military agencies and civilian authorities.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2002-09-05/cover4.html (881 words)

	U.S. Northern Command setup becomes clearer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the command unfurls its flag at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart will have COCOM of the Joint Forces Headquarters Homeland Security, based at Norfolk, Va. and currently under U.S. Joint Forces Command.
		Besides becoming the commander of U.S. Northern Command, Eberhart commands the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
		Northern Command will also have direct coordinating authority with the U.S. Coast Guard.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=81502115 (492 words)

	Terrorism - Unified Command Plan
		While the military chain-of-command (president-secretary of defense-combatant command commanders) is unchanged, the exact point at which Ridge interfaces with the Defense Department is unclear as Ridge is part of the White House and not the head of a co-equal Cabinet-level department.
		The Unified Command Plan is a pivotal document in that it establishes and missions of all combatant command commanders and delineates the geographical areas of responsibility for the regional commanders in chief.
		The five geographical commands are European Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Central Command, and Northern Command.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/ucp.cfm (692 words)

	United States Northern Command - The Cellar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The shield, or emblem, of the new Northern Command is shown in a handout graphic released Monday, Sept. 30, 2002.
		The new command will stand up Oct. 1, 2002, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The NORTHCOM commander will be responsible for homeland defense and also serve as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a U.S.-Canada command.
		The current NORAD commander is also the commander of U.S. Space Command, also at Peterson.
	cellar.org /showthread.php?t=2188 (391 words)

	DISA Northern Command (NORTHCOM) Field Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		DISA NORTHCOM is the single DISA voice for the northern command.
		Supports the implementation of the GIG in the theater of responsibility as authorized by the Director DISA and in accordance with DISA Headquarters policy and procedures.
		The Commander of DISA NORTHCOM reports directly to and receives operational direction from the Principal Director for GIG Operations.
	www.disa.mil /main/northcom.html (269 words)

	NDM Article - Northern Command Not Directing Enough Attention To Maritime Defense
		One of the nation's biggest threats at this point-weapons of mass destruction-will most likely be acquired overseas, and components may be transported to the United States through the nation's maritime domain, which is NORTHCOM's territory, said McHale.
		Keating-the first Navy officer to head the command-is expected to reassess what he needs to execute his maritime mission, and report his findings to the secretary of defense within the next few months, said McHale.
		Commanders will have to determine whether LCS, or some other platform, would be appropriate for combat close to the U.S. coast, he said.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2005/Northern_Command.htm (954 words)

	JTF-CS "No Northern Command Without the National Guard, New Chief Says" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And there is no way Northern Command can perform its new job without the Guard, Air Force Gen. Ralph Eberhart told the 1,800 delegates gathered in Long Beach, CA, for the National Guard Association of the United States' 124th annual conference.
		The major difference between Northern Command and the commands established after World War II for Europe, the Pacific, and for Central and South America is that the homeland, the United States, is in the new area of responsibility, Eberhart said.
		That means the Northern Command will have to provide unified support for civil authorities as well as for the president and the secretary of defense, he added.
	www.jtfcs.northcom.mil /pages/news20020910.html (868 words)

	Unique military unit defends the U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The episode called into play the Northern Command, a unique military command devoted solely to the defense of U.S. soil, and one in which a Washington state National Guard unit plays a huge role.
		The command is responsible for the defense and security of continental North America, including Canada, Mexico, waters up to 500 miles off the North American coastlines and parts of the Caribbean.
		NORAD and the Northern Command rely heavily upon a low-key unit staffed primarily by full-time, federalized Washington state air National Guard men and women, the Western Air Defense Sector -- "WADS" as it is nicknamed.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/114024_wnorthcom25.shtml (1050 words)

	Terrorism - Homeland Defense - Northern Command
		The U.S. Northern Command, the military's new unified command charged with defending the continental United States from attack, is moving towards formal establishment, which is scheduled to occur on Oct. 1 at the command's new headquarters at Colorado Springs, Colo.
		The Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, is somewhat different from the rest of the regional unified commands that control military operations around the world — the European and Southern Commands, for example.
		Steven Blum, former commander of the National Guard's 29th Infantry Division, has been assigned as the new command's chief of staff; and, depending on how the Guard's role develops within the command, a guardsman could be given the deputy commander's position in the future.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/northern-details.cfm (1023 words)

	JINSA Online -- U.S. Northern Command to Take Larger Role in Disaster Relief
		The United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), the newest of America’s regional combatant commands, may not be a household name but, as a JINSA delegation learned during a recent visit, it plays a critical role in defending the American homeland from attack whether by terrorists, long-range missiles or natural disasters.
		The head of U.S. Northern Command, Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN, said that the role of active-duty military personnel could be broadened to help fill gaps in local and state-level disaster response.
		It is called Canada Command and, officials said, is based on the new international security environment and a commitment to place greater emphasis on the defense of Canada and North America.
	www.jinsa.org /articles/view.html?documentid=3496 (1626 words)

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