Measures are needed “to ensure the Arctic does not become a strategic blind spot” as melting ice makes the region more accessible economically and militarily, according to the Defense Department’s 2024 Arctic Strategy.
The United States will expand its military readiness and surveillance in the Arctic given heightened Chinese and Russian interest coupled with new risks brought on by accelerating climate change, the Pentagon said in a new report.
“Melting Arctic ice caps are opening new shipping lanes and attracting increased interest and activity from both the People’s Republic of China and Russia,” Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Defense, said during a briefing Monday. China is “the only strategic competitor with the will and increasingly the wherewithal to remake the international order” while Russia “continues to pose an acute threat to security and stability in the region.
The region’s strategic importance is also changing as sea ice melts, meaning the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia and the Barents Sea north of Norway “are becoming more navigable and more economically and militarily significant,” according to the report.
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