The NORAD tracker shows Santa's general position and speed while withholding the exact route. Within the joke, that limit is operational security against forces hostile to Christmas. The protection effort then widens beyond NORAD to NATO and other defence organisations around the world. Their shared task is to keep the flight unobstructed. Comparing this cooperation with the World War I Christmas Truce casts the tradition as a light example of armed forces serving a common civil purpose.
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Route secrecy and worldwide protection of Santa's flight
The public tracker shows Santa's progress without an exact route, while worldwide defence cooperation is likened to a successor to the Christmas Truce.