The Pentagon Is Dismantling Its Own Arctic Defense
The Pentagon is inadvertently weakening support for Alaska Native Corporations, which play a crucial role in Arctic defense infrastructure and critical mineral supply chains. These organizations are vital to U.S. strategic competition with China in the Arctic region. The move appears to be an unintended consequence rather than a deliberate policy shift.
- ▪Alaska Native Corporations operate key Arctic defense infrastructure.
- ▪These corporations control access to critical mineral supplies in the region.
- ▪They are essential to U.S. strategic efforts to counter China's influence in the Arctic.
- ▪The Pentagon's actions are having unintended negative consequences on these entities.
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The Pentagon is quietly dismantling support for Alaska Native Corporations — the organizations that operate our Arctic defense infrastructure, control critical mineral supplies, and are essential to competing with China – maybe not intentional but as the result of unintended consequences Read Full Article »
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