Polar War
Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'This is a proper piece of journalism. It's a fascinating book. I read it from start to finish in a single sitting' Alastair Campbell, THE REST IS POLITICS
'Anyone... wanting to understand the context of the US president's Greenland landgrab should buy POLAR WAR' THE TIMES
Russian spies. Sabotaged pipelines. Troop movements and threats to 'take Greenland'. Tensions are building at the top of the world.
The Arctic stands at the crossroads of geopolitical ambition and environmental catastrophe. President Trump's assertions on Greenland reveal a regional context where fast-moving climate change is opening up new trade routes, untapped natural resources and long-frozen biological weapons. Award-winning commentator Kenneth R. Rosen draws on first-hand reportage and testimony to document the race to control this strategically crucial territory. Can America, which since the 1990s has lagged behind on infrastructure, really reimpose its might against the superior technology and strategic engagement of Russia and China? Above the Arctic Circle, the world's superpowers stand on the brink of a new cold war - and every day it grows hotter.
Timely and incisive, Polar War is an essential account of the interests, landscapes and people at the world's most extreme frontier.
'This reporting is indispensable' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A wake-up call to the West' JONATHAN BEALE, BBC Defence Correspondent
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The Arctic could be the next front in a new cold war that rapidly alters the balance of geopolitical power, journalist Rosen argues in this captivating debut investigation. Two years of travel to the Arctic regions and hundreds of interviews bolster Rosen's hypnotic descriptions of the frigid crossroads where nations vie for domination and control. Through peripatetic wanderings, tag-alongs on Norwegian icebreakers and U.S. Coast Guard cutters, and tours of international air bases, Rosen identifies the alarming consequences of climate change and their impacts on a host of international security and scientific concerns. Particularly worrying is Russia's "vision and strategy" for arctic supremacy since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which has hampered scientific expeditions and crucial data sharing, leaving scientists "exhausted and limited at a critical time for climate-change science." What data can be gleaned is highly alarming: Rosen cites predictive modeling that shows the Arctic Ocean could see "ice-free summers" by 2030. However, rather than prompting nations to address climate change, this data seems to only be amping up the "urgency to stake a claim to the spoils of the rapidly melting arctic." Spotlighting America's "years of relative inattention" to the region, Rosen somberly warns that "while the American Arctic sleeps... the European Arctic prepares for war." Both lyrical and deeply reported, it's an ominous wake-up call.
