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C. NORAD’S NEW MARITIME WARNING MISSION
As an aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Canada and the U.S. created a Binational
Planning Group (BPG) in 2004 to work on multiple proposals for creating wider
cooperation between Canadian and U.S. military plans and protocols, and to look for
common mission areas in which the two countries could share information. One area of
mutual interest was improving awareness of maritime threat routes which surround the
North American continent. 17 (See Figure 8.)
Figure 8.
Maritime Threat Routes.
17 “2014: Piracy, Terrorism and Direct Maritime Threats,” The Maritime Executive, 14 Mar 2014,
accessed 20 Apr 2015, http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/2014-Piracy-Terrorism--Diverse-
Maritime-Threats-2014-03-14/.
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