Special Issue 2025
Arctic Security
This special issue of JAMS analyzes how the changing environment, both in the realm of climate, security, and diplomacy, coupled with the high north’s proximity to Russia’s most potent military force-complex on the Kola Peninsula—holding some of the world’s largest concentration of nuclear weapons—makes NATO’s northern flank a region of key strategic importance. As the Arctic region also functions as a key area for U.S. global power projection, in addition to its importance in holding vital sea lines of communication open, including control of the Greenland-Iceland-U.K. (GIUK) gap, the North Atlantic and Arctic region is, and will remain, a Marine Corps concern for the foreseeable future.
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The Russian Northern Fleet Bastion Revisited Jonas Kjellén
The Arctic as an Arena for Strategic Competition: Rivalry with Traditional and Irregular Levers of Power on NATO’s Northern Flank Njord Wegge, PhD
The Arctic as a Periphery in U.S.-China Competition Charlotte Hulme, PhD
Chinese Arctic Expansion: How Beijing Benefits from Moscow’s Isolation Captain Mark Vicik, USA
NATO’s Long Cold Front: Why NATO Must Reorganize Its Approach to Defending the European High North Major Ryan R. Duffy, USA (Ret); Lieutenant Colonel Jahara Matisek, USAF, PhD; Lieutenant Commander Jeremy M. McKenzie, USCG (Ret); and Colonel Chad M. Pillai
Enhancing NATO’s Naval Power in the High North Gonzalo Vázquez III