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Dr. Andrea Charron Director of the University of Manitoba's Centre for Defence and Security Studies

The Free Press: The northern front

August 29, 2025 — 

Andrea Charron is the director of the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies and co-author of NORAD: In Perpetuity and Beyond, one of the “go-to” scholarly books on Norad, with James Fergusson.

“Trump tends to portray (Golden Dome) as this one single, exquisite system that’s going to be all singing and dancing. In fact, it’s going to be a whole bunch of different systems linked together,” says Charron. “And (the) Norad mission is a big part of that, because Norad has the air-warning mission for all of North America.”

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