06/03/2014: Aircrews from the 94th Airlift Wing, 934th Airlift Wing, 302nd Airlift Wing and the 914th Airlift Wing attend a mass pre-flight briefing detailing the day’s mission at Edmonton International Airport, Alberta, Canada. Seven C-130 Hercules prepare to take off from Edmonton International Airport and fly to Cold Lake Air…
[slidepress gallery='general-jacoby'] 2013-01-02 Arctic warming is creating a new Arctic environment and with it a new strategic situation. Changes are coming over time, but the strategic trajectories are very clear. New transportation routes, new resources, new security challenges and new defense dynamics are inevitable. And very little of this is at…
The United States and the Arctic By Rear Admiral Jeffrey M. Garrett, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired) 07/07/2011 - Long relegated to the periphery of world affairs—occupying the distorted top edge of a conventional Mercator projection of the world—the Arctic has been rediscovered in the first decade of the new millennium.…