When the Arctic was a war zone
The media today seems to get a thrill out of announcing that war is around the corner in the Arctic.…
Russia's Arctic military build-up is real, and you can see it from space
For centuries, sea ice and forbidding conditions made Russia’s north coast all but impassable to foreigners. The Russian Empire worried…
Rhetorical or real, Russian expansionism threatens the Arctic
In October 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared, “The Soviet Union is in favor of a radical lowering of the level of military confrontation in the region. Let the North of…Continue Reading →