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Treat NATO as an Arctic alliance

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 6, p. 189. Written by Kiron K. Skinner.

Treat NATO as an Arctic alliance

The document says “shouldWho acts: President, Secretary of StateHow: internal managementp. 189 in the PDF
What the document says

“The next Administration should embrace the view that NATO must acknowledge that it is, in part, an Arctic alliance.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 189

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.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 189
That sentence, in plain words

The next team should say NATO is partly an Arctic alliance.

What this is about

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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