{"id":5696,"date":"2026-10-07T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/former-norad-chief-warns-war-could-reach-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:55:03","slug":"former-norad-chief-warns-war-could-reach-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/former-norad-chief-warns-war-could-reach-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NORAD Chief Warns War Could Reach St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/2No9SPRn90c\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former NORAD commander describes the war that could reach St. Louis\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2No9SPRn90c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) A former commander responsible for defending North America is warning that the United States can no longer assume a major war will remain safely overseas \u2014 a changing security reality with direct implications for St. Louis and Missouri. Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, former commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, delivered that message Tuesday during the inaugural \u201cDefending the Homeland\u201d Crossroads Confluence at Washington University in St. Louis. VanHerck\u2019s warning does not mean an attack on St. Louis is imminent, nor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/former-norad-chief-warns-war-could-reach-st-louis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) A former commander responsible for defending North America is warning that the United States can no longer assume a major war will remain safely overseas \u2014 a changing security reality with direct&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5698,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}