Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau (right) and NATO general secretary Jens Stoltenberg posing with NATO soldiers. Photo: NATO OPINION PIECE BY Paul T. Mitchell, Canadian Forces College The Canadian government’s recent defence policy update, Our North: Strong and...
The French Polar Institute and Tara sign an agreement to work together in the Arctic. Image: Camille Lin Yesterday evening saw the conclusion of a strategy meeting for French action in the clusters. There are many players involved, and there is a need for coordination...
A decision to build a new class of warship and a polar-research vessel shows Denmark wants to be able to stake its Arctic claim on something other than Greenland In his 1890 book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, A.T. Mahan, a US naval captain and...
Since 2021, the head of the Joint Arctic Command, a Greenland-Faroe Islands-Danish cooperation, has been Rear Admiral Martin La Cour-Andersen (center). His department needs more resources to protect the Atlantic region stretching from Greenland to Denmark in order to...
He sees a more dangerous Arctic (Photo: Nato) It is not every day that a Nato secretary-general makes a visit to Canada. Indeed, the visit last week by Jens Stoltenberg was the first since he took over as the alliance’s leader in 2014. Rarer still is a visit to...