A US helping hand to Norway in Jan Mayen also extends the Pentagon’s Arctic reach
The Pentagon is considering helping Norway resupply remote Jan Mayen island. Doing so would also give the U.S. a foothold in a strategically important corner of the Arctic.
Jan Mayen, a Norwegian outpost at the edge of the Arctic, is known by that country’s military as its “most exotic” workplace. Earlier this month, however it become one of the region’s most hotly discussed pieces of real estate, after it emerged that specialists from the U.S. Air Force had visited in November to inspect a runway to assess whether American cargo planes could land there.
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