Posted on 05/13/2024 6:28:38 AM PDT by bitt
America’s attention to Arctic security has intensified in recent years. Our force structure has grown deliberately, a word that usually means “on purpose.” For this Alaskan, particularly when Russia and China practice war games with live ammunition in Alaska’s fishing grounds, “deliberate” can also mean “slowly,” or “not fast enough.”
More intensive U.S. security “deliberation” might best be directed now toward Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, too.
In geopolitics, the Antarctic has been quiet to date, or at least less competitive. A great circle air route over the South Pole has less traffic, and southern shipping has less strategic significance to world markets or military logistics. The Antarctic treaty system bans military activity and mineral exploitation on the Southern Continent. Environmental and science cooperation has been stronger at times in the South than in the North polar region.
But great power competition knows no bounds. Russia abandoned international law by invading Ukraine. China, an ally of Russia, has refused to renounce violence in its goal of “reunification” with Taiwan. Both nations have put trust in treaties – and trade deals – at serious risk. Reminiscent of the Cold War, we must wake again to counter superpower “positioning” in far reaching places, from the Moon to the Antarctic.
Now, experts such as General Chuck Jacoby – who earned his Arctic credentials as chief of U.S. Army Alaska, NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command – are warning that the power struggles playing out in the Arctic today could be a preview of what is to come in Antarctica. The time has clearly come to view polar security through an Antarctic lens as well.
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[Antarctic and Arctic Security Threats Are Converging]
Could be a Perfect Storm.
I suggest we establish Ice Station Zebra.
Global warming will solve that problem.....................
I figured this just HAD to be about climate change. Surprise!
Russia took full advantage of working on and claiming territory in the Arctic during B-HO’s rein. The media and the administration both ignored it.
How about a priority of national borders ?
Rather than “Antarctica” ?
hey, great!!! an entirely new continent for the Biden regime to provoke wars on
lots of profit in all them hostilities. And the Big Man gets his 10 percent?
Exactly. My assumption was the US would soon (next billion years) be inundated with glacier melt and only the Rocky Mountain spotted baby far sighted goat at higher elevations would be the only surviving life form.
Exactly. My assumption was the US would soon (next billion years) be inundated with glacier melt and only the Rocky Mountain spotted baby far sighted goat at higher elevations would be the only surviving life form.
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