Treat NATO as an Arctic alliance
What the document says“The next Administration should embrace the view that NATO must acknowledge that it is, in part, an Arctic alliance.”
The chapter notes that with Finland and Sweden joining, every Arctic nation except Russia will be a NATO member, and says NATO has been slow to see the Arctic as a theatre it must defend. It asks that Arctic shipping lanes remain open to all commercial traffic and free of onerous fees, and says the north star of American Arctic policy should be national sovereignty.
What the document actually says“The next Administration should embrace the view that NATO must acknowledge that it is, in part, an Arctic alliance.”
The next team should say NATO is partly an Arctic alliance.
The Arctic is the icy sea at the top of the world. Russia has built bases there. The book says NATO should treat it as ground to defend.
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