Let us be clear: we are soon entering the Arctic Century, and its most defining feature will be Greenland’s meteoric rise, ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and ...

In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Donald Trump identified a surprising priority: Greenland. Trump wants to ...

While generally welcomed, the US military presence in Greenland has not been without controversy. The development of the US air base in Pituffik-Thule in the early-1950s led to a loss of hunting ...

The U.S. also offered Denmark $100 million for Greenland after World War II. Instead, Washington got a defense treaty centered on Thule Air Base, now Pituffik Space Base, the U.S. military’s ...

Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's former minister to ...

Since the 1940s, the Pentagon has valued Greenland, which serves as a gateway ... formerly known as Thule Air Base. Today, the nuclear armed long-range bombers that were part of the original ...

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is one of the loneliest U.S. military assignments in the world. Built on Arctic permafrost, the base hosts 200 troops in Greenland's far north.

Two years later, Omaha’s Kiewit Corporation won a contract from the Army Corps of Engineers to build Thule Air Base in ...