ANALYSE – The Ministry of the Armed Forces unveils its first “Defense Strategy for the Arctic”, while the region could become a new theater of tension in the next decade.
Before joining the port of Toulon, the Jeanne d’Arc mission crossed the oceans of the Far North. At the end of a five-month deployment, the French naval officers, embarked on the amphibious helicopter holder Mistral and light frigate Overcoufhave sailed in this strategic area which, tomorrow, will perhaps become a theater of tensions. They became familiar with cold and “growlers”, iceberg fragments off the coast of Greenland, Iceland, then beyond the polar circle. The group has stopped in Tromso in Norway.
Almost at the same period, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, on an official trip to Oslo, signed a strategic partnership with this allied NATO country from the European Union. France hopes to sell frigates at the Norwegian Navy. A few days earlier, the president had stopped in Greenland to recall his solidarity with Denmark. In parallel and on the sidelines of the NATO summit at the end of June, Finland…
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