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NATO's reinforcement of defense postures and emphasis on protection of member states.
The principal legal framework governing U.S. military presence in Greenland is the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, negotiated at NATO’s reques...
The NATO Unity Protection Act is a bipartisan bill introduced in the 119th Congress that, in its operative language, bars Department of Defense and Department of State funds from being used to blockad...
The comparison between President Trump’s repeated threats to “acquire” Greenland and Adolf Hitler’s prewar expansion—most notably the invasion of Poland—captures a shared political logic of territoria...
Without sustained U.S. logistical and strategic enablers, European NATO members would still possess significant combat power on paper but would face critical gaps in force projection, sustainment and ...
A U.S. president attempting to order a military invasion of a NATO ally’s territory would confront multiple, overlapping legal and political constraints: domestic constitutional checks—most notably Co...
NATO is not currently collapsing: no member state has formally rescinded membership as of 2026, and Article 13 provides a clear legal exit process . However, intense political shocks — most recently p...
A move to “Europeanize” NATO command and install a non‑U.S. SACEUR would be as much political as legal: it would require unanimous alliance agreement to rewrite long‑standing practice that ties the SA...
Europe’s military posture in 2025 is numerically and technologically very different from the Cold War: Cold War-era forces were organized and massed for a large, immediate land war in central Europe, ...
Greenlandic leaders publicly back strengthened Arctic defence cooperation under the Kingdom of Denmark and NATO while insisting Greenland’s self‑determination must be respected, even as they push back...
Since 2010 NATO has steadily broadened its interpretation of Article 5 to include cyber and, more recently, space-related harms—while deliberately keeping thresholds vague so that responses remain pol...
The complete PDF of the NATO Unity Protection Act is hosted on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee website and can be downloaded directly at https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/nato_unity_...
If the United States attempted to seize Greenland, Denmark and Greenland would mobilize an array of international‑law and diplomatic tools: immediate protest and mobilization of NATO and UN channels, ...
Greenland’s strategic importance to the United States is rooted in a Cold War-era security logic—its geography anchors early-warning, missile-defense and Arctic surveillance networks and sits astride ...