"Strategy and Competition at the Ends of the Earth" Topic
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Tango01 | 07 Jan 2021 10:40 p.m. PST |
"The Arctic and Antarctica are well-known Cold War theaters. While these frozen frontiers hosted strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, they also produced legacies of cooperation that have extended through the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Indeed, the polar regions continue to host cooperative relations between Washington and Moscow, despite cooler ties elsewhere. Why is this the case? Perhaps more crucially, how can this current climate of cooperation between Russia and the West within these regions be bolstered for another thirty years? And what might fracture it? Likening the polar regions to each other is an apples-and-oranges comparison. Both are cold, operationally challenging environments located at the ends of the earth. But the Arctic is primarily an ocean; the Antarctic primarily a continental landmass. The Arctic is a region generally delineated above the Arctic Circle, though the US definition also includes the Bering Sea and Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain. The Arctic is, save for few areas of contestation, predominantly claimed consistent with the agreed international legal architecture—United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea. In contrast, Antarctica is a continent covered in ice a mile thick in most places, with no formal state sovereignty and where the question of territoriality is all but suspended by the Antarctic Treaty System. While seven states claim sectors of the continent, these are not formally recognized, and the southernmost continent is all but protected as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Editor in Chief Bill | 08 Jan 2021 4:17 a.m. PST |
Courtesy of the Modern War Institute at West Point |
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