8 November, 2021
RAUSI has noted with interest the recent publications of US Armed Forces, service-specific, Arctic Strategies. Like many Canadian Arctic strategies, these are filled with robust rhetoric but fail to include specific details which would allow the reader to understand how the various strategies could be fully implemented in a cost-effective manner. In a recent publication titled OPERATIONALIZING THE ARCTIC, Dr. Ryan Burke and Dr. Cameron Carlson call for the coordination of the various US DoD Arctic strategies. The benefits of doing so are self-evident. A number of nations are working diligently to deploy & employ military assets in the Arctic; RAUSI members are urged to discuss how Canada intends to respond in the Arctic with their elected officials at the earliest convenience.