GIUK Watch

State of play, day fourteen.

Greenland: occupied.
Allied fifth-gen: half grounded.
US assets in Europe: frozen.
European airspace to US offensive traffic: closed.
Deaths: zero.

That last line is doing a lot of work and nobody should assume it holds.

Mel

Small practical thing nobody is covering: the German kids in my daughter's class made her a card. She is seven. She does not know what an asset freeze is. She knows the card said "wir vermissen dich schon" — we miss you already — and she has not put it down si…

U.S. Department of Defense

Air Mobility Command has established a direct strategic air bridge sustaining U.S. forces in the Arctic from continental hubs. Operations continue on schedule and without interruption.

hull&wake

Watching the charter market instead of the runways. MSC and MARAD have been booking ice-class heavy lift out of Halifax all week. Generators, prefab, construction material. You cannot fly a generator to Greenland economically. The air bridge is theatre. The se…