The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when American soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on ...
The Americans have the Pituffik Space Base (pronounced Bee-doo-FEEK) in northwestern Greenland. Its 150 personnel run missile ...
“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” President Donald Trump said on Jan. 5, “and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.” This was the icebreaker for a negotiation over ...
The Arctic territory is of strategic importance, under the flight paths that nuclear-armed missiles from China and Russia ...
A Cold War-era agreement with Denmark already allows the US to ramp up its military presence in Greenland. Crucially, it also acknowledges ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over the island.