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US base in Greenland
Pituffik Space Base — long known as Thule Air Base — is the United States’ sole remaining military installation in Greenland, maintained under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark and operated as a S...
Only one NATO member — Germany — has publicly announced a specific, finalized small contingent and a narrow timeline for deployment to Greenland: a 13-strong Bundeswehr reconnaissance team to Nuuk, ar...
— has never been a U.S. possession or part of the , though has repeatedly sought to control or influence the island through wartime defense arrangements, base rights and several purchase proposals tha...
military basing in began as an emergency arrangement in 1941 and expanded into a network anchored by Thule (now Pituffik) under a sweeping 1951 defense agreement with ; most facilities were later clos...
The to the Agreement formally inserted Greenland’s home-rule authorities into the legal framework that governs U.S. military activity on the island and added procedural safeguards for consultation and...
Greenland’s defense system today is a patchwork of historical agreements, a small but strategically vital U.S. military footprint, and expanding NATO cooperation, all set against a contested political...
is strategically important to U.S. and posture—home to the and placed astride emerging Arctic sea lanes and resources—but the available reporting shows that is a strong enhancer of deterrence, not an ...
declassified collections and associated documents make clear that nuclear planning and deployments connected to are documented across multiple releases: the 1951 “Technical Schedule” to the U.S.– Agre...
’ strategic interest in began as a wartime necessity and imperative—peaking with a secret 1946 offer to buy the island and formalized U.S. defense roles under ’s 1951 treaty commitments—and has since ...
The offer to buy — a reportedly secret $100 million-in-gold bid made and rejected by — crystallizes themes that still shape modern thinking about territorial purchases: strategic value, legal constrai...