Arctic Security

Army Tackles Arctic Challenges Alongside European Allies , by Mikayla Easley, August 2, 2022 in National Defense Magazine . The author covers the renewed emphasis on Arctic operations by the US Army, including the Army's 2021 strategy document,  Regaining Arctic Dominance: The US Army in the Arctic . During a discussion of Army strategy at a recent defense defense exhibition in Paris, Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak, deputy commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, stated, " “We have a significant gap in operating in areas of extreme cold, … in high levels of snowfall and in mountainous terrain,” Closing this gap is critical in the face of expanded Arctic presence and operations by Russian and China. France and Finland have facilities that allow regular large-scale training in Arctic conditions. The US Army in the 1990s did the same in Alaska, when I graduated from the mountain warfare course at the Black Rapids Training Site, operated by the Northern Warfare Training Center at Ft....