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The 1951 defense pact that granted the US wide rights to operate and expand military facilities in Greenland while Denmark retained sovereignty.
never owned as sovereign territory either during or afterward; instead it assumed responsibility for the island’s defense, established military bases there during the war, maintained a presence into ,...
treaty already grants the broad rights to operate military forces and establish “defense areas” in with Danish consent—the Concerning the Defense of Greenland (as amended) explicitly enabled U.S. base...
Declassified 1946 memos show that senior U.S. officials seriously explored an outright —offering roughly $100 million in gold—and that the proposal was driven by immediate postwar strategic and milita...
No — never owned ; it has at times acted as a military protector, sought to buy the island, and maintained bases there, but legal sovereignty has remained with and Greenlanders have increasingly exerc...