The nominee to lead U.S. Northern Command told a Senate panel he would support placing a base for the Coast Guard’s new icebreaker fleet in the Arctic. Fielding questions today from the Senate Armed ...

Clouds roll over the Thule Tracking Station, known as callsign "POGO," operated by the 23rd Space Operations Squadron, Detachment 1, at Thule Air Base, now known as Pituffik Space Base, in Greenland, ...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Wendler stands watch during the five-week Ice Exercise above the Arctic Circle in March 2016. Congress wants the Pentagon to consider building a maritime and air base in Alaska ...

For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic gem in ...

To counter growing Russian and Chinese aggression in the Arctic, the United States must create a grid of small, dispersed, and concealed bases across the region.

Two enlisted men, members of the United States forces at the U.S. air base at Thule, Greenland, have formed a congregation at the Arctic base, it was reported by Ansel E. Talbert who has just returned ...

Far above the Arctic Circle, a futuristic army complex equipped with a gym and year-round hot water serves the needs of Russia's Arctic troops. Moscow built the military base on the remote Kotelny ...

Though the Russian military has little in common with liberal Western politicians or environmental groups like Greenpeace, it is taking ice melt in the Far North seriously. By Andrew E. Kramer FRANZ ...