Why the new Arctic ‘Cold War’ is a dangerous myth
ANALYSIS: Militaries do more than wage wars — and sensationalist warnings of a new Cold War in the Arctic do more to exacerbate tensions, not head them off.
All too often the Arctic region is portrayed as an area on the cusp of military crisis. This is an easy narrative to sell; it harks back to the Cold War. Potent imagery persists of submarines trolling silently beneath the Arctic ice and nuclear ballistic missiles pointed across the North Pole.
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