Denmark Plans A Major Boost To Defence In Greenland

Denmark has announced a large summation successful defence spending to fortify information successful Greenland and nan Arctic.  

The plan includes caller ships, jets, and a subject base, arsenic nan state looks to protect its territory and meet NATO goals. 

The Danish authorities will walk astir $4.2 cardinal (£3.2 billion/€3.9 billion) connected improving information crossed nan Arctic and North Atlantic. This includes buying 2 caller Arctic patrol ships, maritime surveillance planes, drones, and early-warning radar systems. 

A awesome portion of nan scheme is nan creation of a caller Arctic Command office successful Nuuk, nan superior of Greenland. A caller subject portion will besides beryllium group up location nether Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command. 

Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said nan move will make Denmark’s equipped forces “significantly stronger” successful nan region. 

Denmark will besides walk different $4.5 cardinal (£3.5 billion, €4.2 billion) to bargain 16 much F-35 combatant jets from nan United States, expanding its full amount to 43. 

The Danish Defence Ministry said nan extremity is to amended defence and meet NATO obligations. It did not sanction immoderate circumstantial countries arsenic imaginable threats. 

Greenland has a organization of astir 57,000 and is portion of nan Kingdom of Denmark but has a precocious grade of self-rule. It’s besides location to a long-standing US radar base, which has made it very important since nan Cold War. 

Interest successful Greenland has risen successful caller years, not only because of its location betwixt North America and Europe but besides owed to its valuable earthy resources specified arsenic uncommon world minerals, uranium, and iron. 

The renewed attraction connected nan region follows comments from United States of America President Donald Trump, who erstwhile said he wanted nan United States to bargain Greenland, calling it “critical” for American security.