Taming The Polar Bear

• Main Author: Behrens,Mikkel N
• Other Authors: Air Command and Staff College, Air University Maxwell Air Force Base United States
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Military Operations; Strategy and Tactics; national security; ballistic missiles; treaties; fighter aircraft; air defense; area denial; cyberattacks; military capabilities; mobile phones; naval aviation; patrol aircraft; agreements; navy; russia; 10015; Arctic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1023620; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1023620

The Arctic environment is changing, drastically revealing opportunities and vulnerabilities. In this environment, the U.S./NATO could be challenged by a failing and assertive Russia in a potential conflict in the form of a limited conventional war comparable to the Falklands war. Russia's vast arsenal of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) capabilities in the space-, cyber-, air-, land and maritime domains constitutes a challenge to deny the U.S./NATO access to, or denial in, a conflict scenario in the European Arctic.