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Brutal Arctic Conditions Test U.S. and Allied Forces

August 19, 2025 at 5:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “U.S. and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops are flocking to the European Arctic, where international tensions are simmering. Militaries haven’t clashed in the high north in generations, and defense planners are puzzling through what war there would look like.”

“It is ugly.”

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