Greenland appears several times in the United States and President Trump's new national defense strategy.
It was issued on Saturday night Danish time by the US Department of War.
Here, Greenland is mentioned several times as a key area for the United States - both in a military and commercial sense.
The first time Greenland is mentioned is in the introduction, where it states that US President Donald Trump entered his second presidential term at a time when, among other things, doubts had been raised about the US's access to key areas such as Greenland.
Later, the strategy states that US interests in the Western Hemisphere must be defended.
- We will guarantee the United States both military and commercial access to key areas, especially the Panama Canal, the American Gulf (Gulf of Mexico, ed.) and Greenland, it continues.
The National Defense Strategy is published every four years, and the latest is from 2022 under then-Democratic President Joe Biden.
The AFP news agency notes that the new strategy is significantly different in several respects.
This includes the strategy's focus on allies taking on greater responsibility with less support from Washington and by taking a more subdued tone towards China and Russia.
In addition, climate change does not appear at all in the 2026 strategy, which the Biden administration had otherwise identified as a threat.
The Department of Defense writes that "the United States' partners throughout the Western Hemisphere" can do much more to, among other things, prevent American adversaries from gaining control of strategic areas.
Greenland is mentioned again in particular here.
- The Department of Defense will work with countries across the Western Hemisphere to advance those goals and encourage and enable them to take greater responsibility.
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