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Department of Defense Releases 2024 Arctic Strategy
The United States Department of Defense has released a new 2024 Arctic Strategy. This updates the 2019 Arctic Strategy. In the interim between the 2019 and 2024 strategies there were multiple wrap-around strategies released as well. The new strategy “…aligns with and nests under the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS), 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS),…
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Scenario Planning for Arctic Security
Each year the Atlantic Council, as part of its Arctic security issue area, hosts the event Looking North: Conference on Security in the Arctic (not to be confused with the United Kingdom’s Arctic Policy Framework of the same name). This year’s conference, concluded yesterday, featured remarks by Esther McClure, DoD Director of Arctic and Oceans…
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National Strategy for the Arctic Region Implementation Plan
In October 2022 the White House released a long-awaited update to the 2013 National Strategy for the Arctic Region. The 2022 National Strategy was fifteen pages long and focused on four pillars: One year later the administration has released the Implementation Plan for the 2022 Strategy for the Arctic Region (NSARIP). The NASRIP runs to…
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Great Power Competition in the Arctic
“This new ocean is appearing on our maps, and it has all kinds of different implications… If you think about the Mediterranean Sea, there were 1,000 years of war to determine the relationships of those countries surrounding it. The question is can we open the Arctic and avoid the conflict?” – Angus King (I-ME) to…
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The Arctic Policy Ecosystem from the Perspective of the US Executive Branch
The Arctic is hot these days, and it’s not just the climate. The United States in particular has accelerated its policy activities as we covered in a recent timeline analysis. A mere week after we published that article came the announcement by the Department of Defense that it is establishing an Arctic Strategy and Resilience Office, with…
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GAO Report on Arctic Maritime Infrastructure
The Government Accountability Office today released a report, Arctic Maritime Infrastructure: Government-wide and Coast Guard Strategies Lack a Means to Measure Progress. The report was used as testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. The report is an update to two prior reports, an…
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Russia Attempts to Limit Freedom of Navigation in the Northern Sea Route
The Russian parliament passed a law this week in an attempt to exert control over the Northern Sea Route north of Siberia. The law includes provisions that limit military traffic to a single vessel at a time, that military vessels give three months notification, and that submarines transit on the surface. The law was first…
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IARPC Releases 2022 Biennial Implementation Plan for Arctic Research
In December 2021 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026. The plan is a vision document written by the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), an agency that coordinates activities by sixteen federal agencies. For context see our visualization of the US Arctic policy ecosystem. The plan…
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US Department of Energy Releases Arctic Strategy
Federal efforts to coalesce around an integrated Arctic strategy continue with the release of the US Department of Energy Arctic Strategy. The DOE has intensified its Arctic engagement in recent years starting with the 2020 reactivation of its Arctic Energy Office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The reports builds on the standard vision of…
