Polar Research and the Secrets of the Arctic
The advantages that some military establishments have enjoyed in the remote Arctic region are diminishing. The military secrets of the Arctic Ocean are being progressively uncloaked, as civilian polar research expands into areas previously known only to a few. This study examines the security ramifi...
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ftjarlp:oai:nordicopenaccess.no:article/1501 2023-05-15T14:18:43+02:00 Polar Research and the Secrets of the Arctic Pedersen, Torbjørn 2019-04-23 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip application/xml https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1501 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v10.1501 eng eng University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1501/3176 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1501/3177 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1501/3178 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1501/3179 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1501 doi:10.23865/arctic.v10.1501 Copyright (c) 2019 Torbjørn Pedersen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC Arctic Review; Vol 10 (2019); 103-129 2387-4562 Arctic dual-use polar research security Situation Awareness Tactical Advantage undersea warfare info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftjarlp https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v10.1501 2022-03-24T06:35:03Z The advantages that some military establishments have enjoyed in the remote Arctic region are diminishing. The military secrets of the Arctic Ocean are being progressively uncloaked, as civilian polar research expands into areas previously known only to a few. This study examines the security ramifications of broadened international research into what has been the most inhospitable and exclusive operational area on Earth. Firstly, the study argues that successful military operations in the Arctic depend on extended knowledge about area-specific issues related to e.g. the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere, weather, sea ice, ocean structure and dynamics, seafloor bathymetry and sediments, as well as reliable target detection systems. Secondly, it finds that a number of nations, both Arctic and non-Arctic, have stepped up their polar research in recent years. Secrets once held by a few are now accessible to many through international cooperation, data-sharing and open-access publishing. Finally, the study concludes that knowledge proliferation is likely to level the Arctic battlefield. Lending terms from Mica Endsley’s three-level Situation Awareness model, polar research will result in increasingly shared perceptions about the Arctic operational environment, contribute to a more uniform comprehension of the elements, and even enable new actors to project a future state of the Arctic environment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctic Ocean Sea ice Arctic Review on Law and Politics Arctic Arctic Ocean Arctic Review on Law and Politics 10 0 103 |
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The advantages that some military establishments have enjoyed in the remote Arctic region are diminishing. The military secrets of the Arctic Ocean are being progressively uncloaked, as civilian polar research expands into areas previously known only to a few. This study examines the security ramifications of broadened international research into what has been the most inhospitable and exclusive operational area on Earth. Firstly, the study argues that successful military operations in the Arctic depend on extended knowledge about area-specific issues related to e.g. the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere, weather, sea ice, ocean structure and dynamics, seafloor bathymetry and sediments, as well as reliable target detection systems. Secondly, it finds that a number of nations, both Arctic and non-Arctic, have stepped up their polar research in recent years. Secrets once held by a few are now accessible to many through international cooperation, data-sharing and open-access publishing. Finally, the study concludes that knowledge proliferation is likely to level the Arctic battlefield. Lending terms from Mica Endsley’s three-level Situation Awareness model, polar research will result in increasingly shared perceptions about the Arctic operational environment, contribute to a more uniform comprehension of the elements, and even enable new actors to project a future state of the Arctic environment. |
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