Iceland

It's not the first time the new NATO member’s fighter jets were deployed to the nation.

The Atlantic world—those nations that share the great ocean’s borders from the high north to the Antarctic Ocean—shares obvious common interests but lacks unity. What’s needed is leadership, and it...

During a recent visit to Iceland, the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday emphasized the island’s importance to North Atlantic and Arctic security.  “Iceland is the geostrategic linchpin for...

Iceland finished hosting Northern Viking 2022, a multi-element exercise that saw Norwegian, French, and German surface ships work with American and German naval aircraft to hunt for enemy submarines. On...

The U.S. Navy kicked off an exercise off the coast of Iceland, which is situated along NATO’s North Atlantic flank, with the aim of practicing naval integration between the alliance’s...

Here’s What to Remember: “Soviet operations against Iceland could have theoretically covered a wide spectrum of means, ranging from air and missile attacks to troop assaults.” So the Soviets could’ve taken...

The ice-covered Grímsvötn volcano on Iceland produced an unusually large and powerful eruption in 2011, sending ash 20km into the atmosphere, causing the cancellation of about 900 passenger flights. In...

Individuals appear to have antibodies for at least four months after they contract the novel coronavirus, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This...

Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It’s one of Clancy’s best books and, interesting for a story about a...

Key Point: The Soviets could’ve taken Iceland. Or at least caused a lot of chaos and disruption if the United States did not bolster the defenses beforehand. Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel...

Key Point: If war broke out, seizing Iceland would have been one of the Soviet’s first initiatives.  Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and...

But that doesn’t mean the Soviets really could’ve invaded Iceland … right? Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It’s...