the arctic

“Over the years, we’ve worked with [survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists] to develop this kit and decided what is the most essential equipment needed to survive”

As military activity in the Arctic increases, the U.S. Air Force expects to play major role, and its special operators are already adapting to the region's challenging conditions

United States military activity around Norway this month reflects the continuing strategic value of NATO's northernmost member, even as the Trump administration changes the U.S. footprint there and across Europe

After decades focused on other regions, the Navy has been increasing its presence in the Arctic as it grows more accessible to economic activity and, in turn, to broader strategic competition with rivals like Russia and China

This year's Ice Exercise was nothing new of the Seawolf-class fast-attack sub USS Connecticut, which also participated in the 2018 version of the biennial Arctic exercise

Two Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft were intercepted by US and Canadian aircraft as they entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone off the coast of Alaska on Monday

Russia said on Thursday it was alarmed by a trip to a Norwegian outpost in the Arctic by a U.S. Air Force unit and urged Oslo to refrain from what it said were de-stabilizing moves in the strategic region