Weekend video: What’s behind Iceland’s security headache

Iceland is the only NATO member without an army and for two decades nobody asked hard questions about that. They’re being asked now.

Deutsche Welle’s Mapped Out explainer runs through why: the GIUK gap and Russia’s growing submarine fleet, the 2006 US withdrawal from Keflavík, Trump’s designs on Greenland, and Iceland’s response; its first formal defense policy, a commitment to raise defense-related spending sharply, and a new defense partnership with the EU. Pia Hansson and Neil Melvin provide the analysis.

Quick overview on why the alliance’s smallest member is suddenly one of its busiest.