Military Review English Edition November-December 2014 | Page 57

ARCTIC STRATEGY

Members from Canada’s Arctic Response Company Group and the U.S. National Guard move to a preparatory training area 2 March
2014 to acclimatize their equipment during Exercise Guerrier Nordique 2014 in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.
(Photo Cpl. Valérie Villeneuve, 35th Canadian Brigade Group)

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s tensions between the United States and the
Soviet Union developed in the years following World War II, United States military
planners and strategists focused substantial effort and
resources on the challenge of Arctic and cold weather
warfare, in large part because of potential territorial
disputes in areas where Russia bordered Alaska as well
as the northern frontier of U.S. ally Canada. Challenged
by operational and tactical difficulties in Korea’s cold
and mountainous environment 22vV