US Military Can’t Sustain Arctic Operations, ‘Let Alone Dominate,’ Experts Say

[rangerrebew]

US Military Can’t Sustain Arctic Operations, ‘Let Alone Dominate,’ Experts Say
JANUARY 18, 2024| SONNER KEHRT
 
Missile launchers illuminated under the glowing green fingers of the northern lights, white-and-gray camo with fur-lined hoods, Green Berets perched two to a snowmobile—these were the scenes from Arctic Edge in 2022, a biannual joint training exercise first convened in 2018 to train troops to operate in the marginal conditions north of the Arctic Circle.

“[These exercises] bring us all together as a joint, combined, and allied force to think about how we can defend the Arctic, how we can work together to not just survive up here, but thrive and be able to protect our homeland,” the commander of the military’s Alaskan Command, Lt. Gen. David Krumm, said after the 2022 exercise.
 
In recent years, the U.S. military has highlighted exercises like this to underscore the importance of the Arctic, trumpeting its commitment to protecting U.S. security interests there.

https://thewarhorse.org/us-military-cant-sustain-arctic-operations-experts-say/

[rangerrebew]

Maybe illegals can show them how to handle it.

[roamer_1]

“We don’t have the capability to sustain forces up there,” says Ryan Burke, the research director of the Homeland Defense Institute at U.S. Northern Command, as well as an affiliate professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Center for Arctic Security and Resilience and the co-director of Project 6633 at West Point’s Modern War Institute. “We don’t have the infrastructure, we don’t have the know-how, we don’t have the institutional knowledge. We don’t have any of what we need to be present, let alone to actually dominate the damn thing.”

That is more a matter of will on the part of the fed US forces.
Mountain state boys function fine in the piney forest, though Ozark and Appalachian folks would have to adapt. Those of us used to low temps and pine woods would do just fine... And the Northern Plains boys are well adapted too, to function above the tree line into the muskeg. And don't forget our allied Canucks.

We have the people and the know how. The only thing lacking would be the gear and commitment.

[sneakypete]

Neither can anyone else,so why is this a big deal?

[Smokin Joe]

That is more a matter of will on the part of the fed US forces.
Mountain state boys function fine in the piney forest, though Ozark and Appalachian folks would have to adapt. Those of us used to low temps and pine woods would do just fine... And the Northern Plains boys are well adapted too, to function above the tree line into the muskeg. And don't forget our allied Canucks.

We have the people and the know how. The only thing lacking would be the gear and commitment.

Maybe it's a problem with the electric dogsleds...

[roamer_1]

Maybe it's a problem with the electric dogsleds...

You just might have a point.