The Pentagon Unveils Its First Strategy For The Arctic

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http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-arctic-strategy-2013-11



Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday the United States will assert its sovereignty in the rapidly thawing Arctic but called on countries to work together to avoid conflict over the untapped frontier.

Unveiling the Pentagon's first Arctic strategy, Hagel said in a speech in Canada that the American military was revising its long-term plans to adjust to the warming climate in the polar region.

President Barack Obama has called the Arctic a peaceful zone free of conflict, and Hagel said: "Our goal is to help assure it stays that way."

With melting Arctic ice opening up new shipping routes and making once inaccessible mineral resources easier to exploit, Hagel said the US military was examining how to prepare for the new environment.

***this 'strategy' will come with a price tag...don't you wonder what that will be?

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1. "Planning ahead, we'll equip our Arctic troops with Bermuda shorts & flip flops" - Chuckie H. (R)

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2. I can see it now the Arctic land rush led by Caribou Barbie on a snow mobile.