During a tense moment in the Anglo-American partnership, President Franklin Roosevelt, chided Winston Churchill with an old prayer,” Spare me from my friends…I can handle my enemies.”i FDR’s frustrations were justified. The redoubtable Churchill’s behavior sometimes...
In 1942, on the eve of the Japanese occupation in Alaska, and despite security concerns in Western Canada, four Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons began operations in Alaska. Availability of military air assets in Alaska was so dire that the four squadrons immediately...
Satellites are indispensable to Arctic operations, underpinning navigation, communications, monitoring, and intelligence. This dependence makes the region uniquely vulnerable to gray zone space warfare, including cyberattacks, jamming, spoofing, and the weaponization...
China is not an Arctic state. It has no territory in the Arctic region, and its nearest point of land to the Arctic Circle is some 900 miles away. China’s 2018 claim to being a “near-Arctic state” was met with a combination of bemusement and ridicule from the...
As the Department of War intensifies its focus on homeland defense and rebuilding the nation’s military, one persistent challenge remains: retaining operational experience before it leaves the force. At the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, the DoW’s...
