However, these Arctic exceptionalism views miss the growing geopolitical competition, driven largely by Russia’s dominance over the Arctic relative to NATO. The Arctic becoming a strategic ...

Around 10,000 soldiers from NATO countries are taking part in Joint Viking 2025 in Troms County, northern Norway, training Norwegian forces to operate alongside allied troops in harsh winter ...

Russia has issued a stark warning to NATO, threatening "catastrophic consequences" if the military alliance continues its activities in the Arctic and intensifies its involvement in Ukraine ...

Russia has a larger military presence in the Arctic than NATO and has been investing in and upgrading its Soviet-era facilities. Chatham House, a UK thinktank, says this is defensive in nature and ...

Russia invests in new and refurbished military infrastructure in the Arctic, maintaining its strategic, air and maritime capabilities despite conventional force losses in Ukraine, and is rebuilding ...

US Marines brave Arctic temperatures ahead of Joint Viking, the largest military exercise in Norway. About 10,000 troops from the US and NATO nations took part in the biennial cold weather training.

With Sweden and Finland now under NATO’s formal umbrella, this regional grouping has emerged not as a quiet coalition, but as ...

Rovaniemi, Finland — Thousands of NATO soldiers are taking part in large-scale artillery exercises in Finland's Arctic this month, seen by some as a signal to neighboring Russia over its war on ...

We traveled to Canada’s harsh Northwest Territories to report on a joint U.S.-Canadian military exercise ... They were training in one ... on Arctic security for over 80 years. Now, NATO wants ...

ISTANBUL. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday underscored the strategic importance of the Arctic and the High North, calling the region “crucial” to the Alliance’s security posture.

The U.S. military is bracing for the possibility that it may have to fight a literal cold war, and there are concerns that the perishable skills needed to succeed in that environment have expired ...

Canada is planning to have a military training presence in the Arctic up to 10 months a year, the country's military operations commander says. Defence experts say the expanded training regime ...