Episode 6: Navigating Arctic Ambitions - Frozen Water & Warming Seas

• Main Author: Brown, Dave
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons 2024
• Subjects: U.S. Naval War College; Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups; CIWAG; Irregular Warfare; IW; Walter Berbrick; Lawson Brigham; Rebecca Pincus; Trident; Arctic; Trans-Arctic shipping; NATO; Sweden; Finland; Arctic Council; Arctic 8; The Ottawa Declaration; Extended Continental Shelf; ECS; Exclusive Economic Zone; EEZ; High North; Polar security; Coast Guard; USCG; Wilson Center; Polar Institute; NOAA; USGS; climate change; Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation; AZRF; hybrid threat; Naval Special Warfare; melting sea ice; Bering Strait; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/the-trident/6; https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/context/the-trident/article/1005/type/native/viewcontent/S1_Ep6_The_Trident_Podcast_FINAL_.mp3

Guests Dr. Lawson Brigham and Dr. Rebecca Pincus join host Col. Dave Brown and co-host Dr. Walter Berbrick to discuss the growing importance of the Arctic Sea as an area of economic resources, Trans-Arctic shipping routes, and a potential zone of international security concerns. This episode will touch upon items relating to the Arctic Council, Arctic development, the impact of the Russia-Ukraine War, and a new era of peace and security in the region. Tune in to hear our participants’ thoughts on threat activity in the High North, along with the need for increased strategic considerations and updated U.S. policy directions. Articles: New Challenges for the Bering Strait, L. Brigham, USNI Proceedings Vol.150/5/1,455, May 2024. Polar Points No. 27 | New Era of Arctic Cooperation, L. Brigham & R. Pincus, Wilson Center, 4 Apr. 2024. 360° View of Policies Needed to Secure Shipping Chokepoints, M. Kennedy, J. Macaron, Wilson Center, et al. (R. Pincus, co-author), 13 Feb. 2024. The IMO Polar Code: Safety and Environmental Protection for Polar Waters, L. Brigham, USNI Proceedings Vol.150/1/1,451, Jan. 2024. Agency Challenges and Implications with a US Extended Continental Shelf, L. Brigham, Wilson Center, 19 Dec. 23. Polar Institute Director Rebecca Pincus on 'What Is Strategic Competition?', R. Pincus, Wilson Center, 5 Jan. 2024. Arctic Militarization and Russian Military Theory, M. Petersen & R. Pincus, Orbis, Volume 65, Issue 3, 2021, Pages 490-512. Security and geopolitics in the Arctic: The Increase of Hybrid Threat Activities in the Norwegian High North, G. H. Gjorv, Hybrid CoE, March 2024. 400+ Allied, Joint Special Operations Forces Secure the Arctic, M. Carey, DVIDS, 14 Mar. 2024. Co-Host: Walter Berbrick, Ph.D. Senior national security executive, strategist, and advisor with two decades of experience leading teams in policy, intelligence, military and academic communities at the highest levels of government. He currently serves as an analyst in the War Gaming Department in the U.S. Naval War ...