Arctic Strategy and Operations
CNA works at the forefront of operations, strategy and policy analysis of the Arctic—a zone of both cooperation among Arctic nations and competition between great powers. Our analysts at sea and ashore in the Arctic have provided real-time analysis to commanders on vital issues from operations and exercises:
- Arctic command and control for the U.S. Navy Maritime Operations Center in Iceland and the Arctic Expeditionary Capabilities Exercise in Alaska
- Cybersecurity and interoperability for Carrier Strike Group Nine during Exercise Northern Edge
- Alliance management and carrier operations for USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group in the first carrier deployment north of the Arctic Circle in nearly three decades
articles
- Russia Assumes Arctic Council Chairmanship Amid Regional Tensions
- The future of US Arctic interests will be written in its naval movements
- Suspending participation in the Arctic Council is tragic, but right
- The Arctic Is No Substitute for Suez. We Should Keep It That Way
- A New Guide to the Heating Arctic
- An Off-the-Shelf Guide to Extended Continental Shelves and the Arctic
- For a Biden Arctic Agenda, Look to Governance
- Focusing the Military Services' Arctic Strategies
- A New Arctic Strategy for an Emerging Maritime Domain
reports
- Russia’s Military Build‐Up in the Arctic: to What End?
- Foreign Direct Investment Screening in the Arctic
- Exploring the Relationship between China’s Investment in the Arctic and Its National Strategy
- Arctic Prospecting: Measuring China’s Arctic Economic Footprint
- Arctic Economic Security: Recommendations for Safeguarding Arctic Nations against China’s Economic Statecraft
- Basing Rights and Contested Sovereignty in Greenland and Diego Garcia: The Impact of Decolonization on US and Allied Access in the Era of Great Power Competition