Why NATO needs to think about the Arctic and why that is difficult.

Between growing tensions with Russia, the emergence of China as a self-declared Arctic protagonist, the vulnerability of data cables and the thawing of the ice as part of global warning, the Arctic is a theater that provides some real challenges to NATO. Join Chris as he talks to Arun Dawson (PhD Student, King's College London) about the Arctic.

Read Arun Dawson's piece on the Arctic (High North): https://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/assets/kcl-fasi-paper12-cold-comfort-web.pdf

Arun Dawson: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/arun-dawson

This video is part of the Military Aviation History & Freeman Air and Space Institute collaboration.

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Dawson, Arun; Cold comfort: the challenges facing the RAF’s return to the Arctic, FASI 2022
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/assets/kcl-fasi-paper12-cold-comfort-web.pdf
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Provided by Arun Dawson:

For a general overview:
- Depledge, Duncan; ‘NATO and the Arctic’, RUSI Journal, 165:5-6 (2020) (link here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071847.2020.1865831

Historical experiences:
- Swinzow, George; On Winter Warfare (Washington, DC: US Army Corps of Engineers, 1993) (link here: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA270031.pdf)
- Schofield, Ernest and Nesbit, Roy Conyers; Arctic Airmen (Cheltenham: The History Press, 2014)
- Kiszely, John; Anatomy of a Campaign (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Recent developments:
- Kaushal, Sidharth; Byrne, James; Byrne, Joseph; Byrne, Giangiuseppe; and Somerville, Gary; RUSI Whitehall Paper 100: The Balance of Power Between Russia and NATO in the Arctic and High North (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022)
- Clark, Robert and White, Roberto; The Next Front? Sino-Russian expansionism in the Arctic and a UK response (London: Civitas, 2022)

- Timecodes -
00:00 - Intro: topic and expert
01:02 - The Arctic: Why should we care
03:51 - Basing, geography and where we are at
06:27 - Shipping routes and underwater sabotage
10:17 - Military exercise and cooperation
14:04 - Unique operating conditions of the Arctic
23:17 - How prepared is NATO?
29:45 - What can a single country do?
34:49 - Relevance vs Ukraine and Indopacific
39:09 - Recommendations

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Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

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