It's Wednesday, February 8, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian world view.

Up first, we continue to pray for the people in Turkey and Syria affected by the massive

earthquake, and even as we were looking at that, we'll be tracking that issue in days ahead,

even as we pray for those whose lives are so affected.

And I also just want to say that I will make comments concerning President Biden stated

the Union address on tomorrow's edition of The Briefing, just as a matter of timing.

But right now, I want to talk about something else that's a matter of timing, and that's

the timing of the U.S. military's admission that evidently previous airships, that's

the Chinese word for it, previous sky balloon incursions, had happened over the course of

the last several years.

And at least some of them were undetected by the American military.

This is now confirmed by the American military in particular, in comments made by the commander

of the Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, that's often referred

to as NORAD.

General Glenn Van Herck made the comment, quote, I will tell you that we did not detect

those threats, and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out.

Now this has come up again and again in recent days, a domain awareness gap.

Now I'll just say that that might be a terminology awareness gap for most listeners to The Briefing.

And so I decided I need to look into what exactly is a domain awareness gap.

Now here's something about the military.

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