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The 1951 Technical Schedule to the U.S.-Denmark Agreement allowed the United States to construct and operate a major military installation at Thule, defining defense areas and minimizing public and Soviet scrutiny.
The 6 August 2004 Igaliku update to the 1951 U.S.–Denmark Defense Agreement formally amended and supplemented the original treaty to recognize Greenland’s changed constitutional status and to add Gree...
The April 9, 1941 “Agreement Relating to the Defense of Greenland,” signed by Danish Ambassador Henrik Kauffmann and U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull, gave the United States broad wartime rights to defend ...
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...
created broad U.S. rights to establish and use “defense areas” . narrows that legal footprint by formally concentrating U.S. access to the Pituffik (Thule) base, embeds Greenlandic authorities into co...
The 1951 U.S.–Denmark “Defense of Greenland” agreement authorizes U.S. forces to establish, operate and use designated “defense areas” in Greenland as part of NATO collective-defense planning, but it ...
The Top Secret 1951 Technical Schedule to the U.S.-Denmark Agreement created the legal and geographic foundation that allowed the United States to plan, construct and operate a major military installa...