Surviving in the Arctic--let alone fighting there and winning--has unique skill and equipment requirements. If our enemies are going there, we need to win there. United States Polar Command (POLARCOM) would be a useful tool to master the varied conditions in that region and work with allies.
The Arctic is no longer a frozen backwater. It is the emerging front line of great-power competition, where geography, resources, nuclear strategy, hypersonic strike, undersea warfare, and dual-use infrastructure converge. Russia has spent more than a decade militarizing its northern approaches while thinning selected defenses to sustain the Ukraine war. China has layered dual-use research stations across the High North. The United States, until recently, treated the region as an afterthought. President Trump’s insistence that Greenland must be brought more firmly under American strategic control is not real-estate whimsy. It is cold-eyed, strategic realism about the shortest polar routes, early-warning sensors, undersea approaches, and the ability to deny adversaries sanctuary in the far north.
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NOTE: Marine Corps photo from the article.
