NBC Nightly News in Alaska to report on national defense:
“It really goes back to the Chinese balloon incident,” Holt said Monday morning when asked about why he decided to bring the broadcast to Alaska. “As we continue to weave that story and tell that story, there were so many questions about, ‘What is out there?’ ‘What does radar see?’ ‘How and where are we at risk?’ And that, of course, led us to Alaska.”
Before the broadcast in Alaska, Holt interviewed Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, on July 20 at NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs. They discussed the spy balloon from China that drifted over Alaska and a large portion of the lower 48 before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
When asked what his takeaways are from his interviews with top military commanders about Alaska’s strategic importance and military readiness, Holt said, “They largely speak with great confidence that the U.S. is prepared and knows where some of these threats are and is willing to adapt, but they also acknowledge it’s a very changing dynamic. In the Arctic: sea ice, more places that there will be challenges over mineral rights and that sort of thing and that could become a military issue.
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