The Kerch Strait Crisis Presents an Opportunity for Russia in the Arctic

December 3, 2018

Russia would have obviously preferred that the Kerch Strait Crisis with Ukraine never happened, but since it did, Moscow’s wasting no time in taking advantage of the highly publicized defense of its m…

Trident Juncture: The Anti-Russia Cold War in the Arctic is Heating Up

October 29, 2018

Opinion

Britain’s Daily Mail is a strident rag that is bought daily by over a million people who agree with its stance that most foreigners are inferior to Brits. Two years ago the European Commission against…

Militarization of Arctic: Issue of Incredible Importance Not Given Due Attention to

October 26, 2018

Opinion

Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific are not the only potential theaters of military operations. The Arctic is an area of geopolitical rivalry. The situation there is undeservedly kept out of medi…

Is Saudi Arabia About to Enter the Arctic Gas Game?

October 23, 2018

Opinion

Now that global oil markets have gotten used to Saudi-Russian oil production cooperation that first hit the scene in early 2017 in an effort to reign in global price concerns, it now appears that the …

NATO’s Upcoming 40,000-Soldier Arctic Drill Is a Message to Russia and China

October 22, 2018

Opinion

NATO’s upcoming Trident Junction 18 drill in Norway will be held at the end of the month and is expected to see the participation of 40,000 troops. The US and its allies have been making a big deal ab…

Battle for the Arctic: NATO’s Trident Juncture Aims to Demonstrate Its Dominance to Russia

October 19, 2018

Opinion

The Arctic is becoming an arena for a fierce competition to control transportation routes & natural resources of global importance. The upcoming Trident Juncture exercise is NATO’s attempt to demo…

Britain and NATO Prepare for War on Russia in the Arctic

October 10, 2018

Opinion

On September 30 the UK’s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, delivered an astonishing tirade, saying “The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving. The lesson f…

US 2nd Fleet Reactivated, Preparing for Arctic Warfare with “Bad Actors”

August 27, 2018

Military

Following a sharp increase in Russian naval activity in the arctic and North Atlantic, the Trump administration has reactivated Navy's 2nd Fleet to deal with "bad actors on the world's stage," accordi…