Survivability,Sustainability, and Maneuverability: The Need for Joint Unity of Effort in Implementing the DOD Arctic Strategy at the Tactical and Operational Levels

摘要

As Chad Briggs observed, "changing environmental conditions … create new security risks where none existed before." He goes on to say that military threats likewise shift, demand a new strategic focus, and, in some extreme cases, require an entirely new tactical approach to maneuver warfare. The Arctic region requires just such a shift in strategic focus. The time may well be coming when countries collide over their interests in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Although we hope for peaceful expansion of business interests and governance into the Arctic, we must also prudently prepare to defend national interests at the top of the world against those who would oppose us or seek to exert control over the region. At present, we are not prepared for such a contingency.