Greenland

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Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Greenland has quickly morphed into a full-blown geopolitical headache, drawing protests, diplomatic backlash, and a sharp reminder that the Arctic is once again a chessboard for global power plays.

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Camp Century, the ‘City Under Ice,’ is a haunting Cold War relic, now unearthed by NASA, that echoes both the boundless ambition of military ingenuity and the unforeseen consequences of environmental neglect.

A massive series of under-ice tunnels capable of storing, transporting, and launching nuclear ballistic missiles, dubbed Project Iceworm.

The Aviation crew attached to the USCG CAMPBELL deployed their rescue swimmer out of the MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter off the coast of Greenland.

On June 9, President Trump released the “Memorandum on Safeguarding U.S. Interests in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.” The Memorandum flew mostly under the radar, yet it is indicative of increased U.S. interest in the polar regions and a response to the adverse power balance in the Arctic. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean […]

No fewer than ten Russian submarines, eight of which are confirmed to be nuclear powered, are said to be conducting a large-scale exercise in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic. This series of drills could potentially last months, and thus far has been centered around the Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom Gap (commonly referred to […]

With President Trump expressing an interest in the purchase of Greenland, it seemed like a good time to delve back into the history of American-Greenland relations. One can trace U.S. involvement with the large chunk of ice northeast of the continental U.S. since the Cold War. Then, the threat was different; namely a nuclear armageddon […]

Arctic Circle — Earlier in October, British Royal Marines and Dutch Royal Marines were conducting combat training exercises in the Arctic. The exercises were part of a training regime intended to enhance relations between the two European nations, establish interoperability between the two Corps, and signal that the Arctic is still depoliticised. But they weren’t […]

In December of 1941, the United States was thrust into the fighting of World War II by way of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and by the summer of 1942, the U.S. Army Air Force (the Air Force wouldn’t be established for another five years) set about hopping a variety of aircraft from […]