U.S. rhetoric about the strategic importance of the Arctic is out of step with its spending priorities
American rhetoric is turning up the temperature in the Arctic while not even really putting its money where its mouth is.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate resumed consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020. This is the bill that sets the annual budget for the U.S. Department of Defense, which receives more than half of all of the federal government’s discretionary funding each year. Each year, the NDAA also offers an update of the government’s perceived threats to national security.
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