NATO scrambles for drones that can survive the Arctic
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Gwladys Fouche In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car
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Kola, Karelia soldiers likely to increase from 30,000 to 80,000
Thousands of soldiers from the three brigades inside the Arctic Circle, near the border with NATO, are killed or wounded
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Finland to join Iceland’s Air Policing Mission for first time as NATO Member
Finland will mark an important moment later this month with its first-ever participation in the Air Policing Mission in Iceland
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NATO scales up presence in Baltic Sea to protect undersea infrastructure
Nato is embarking on a four-month operation to protect critical undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea after a number of
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Increasing risk of escalation in Arctic says Danish defence intelligence service
Denmark’s Defence Intelligence Service (DEI) painted a stark picture of the country’s evolving security landscape in its annual report on
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Premiers push Ottawa to build northern infrastructure after Arctic foreign policy
Canada released its new Arctic foreign policy earlier this month Canada’s northern premiers are pitching the federal government to dip
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“Canada is an Arctic country at a pivotal moment,” says Foreign Minister
The Arctic is becoming an increasingly contested area, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly told a Montreal audience on Friday, pointing to
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Confrontation is unfolding in the Arctic, says Russian Navy Commander
The Arctic has moved from cooperation and interaction to the opposite, a region of possible future conflict, said Russia’s navy
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U-2 spy plane on mission as Norway boosts deterrence against Russia
The U-2 Dragon Lady is back in Norwegian airspace, nearly 65 years after the shot down incident over the Urals
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Norway establishes NATO amphibious warfare center in Sørreisa
The training facility in northern Norway will have the capacity to house several hundred NATO soldiers, Norwegian Defence Minister Bjørn
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Stubb heads to Lapland for NATO exercise after 24 foreign trips
NATO’s largest artillery exercise in Europe ever focuses on Rovajärvi in Finnish Lapland. During the first months of his term,
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Blog: A sharp right turn as the Arctic faces Trump 2.0
Much of the world is now bracing for yet another period of uncertainty and potential chaos in the wake of
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On Trump’s election day, a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber flew over northern Norway into Finland for training
As the Americans voted in the presidential elections on November 5, several long-range B-52 strategic bombers from Barksdale air force
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Sweden beefs up defence forces in the North
“An armed attack against Sweden or our allies can not be excluded,” the Government in Stockholm underlines. The new NATO
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Two carrier groups on exercise outside Norway
This is deterrence against potential future attacks on the Nordic region, says the Norwegian Armed Forces in a statement released
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