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

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

During WWII, Greenland was an important strategic stopover for Allied planes and in 1941 the US built Thule Air Base which is still part of NATO's missile shield today. In 1946, the US offered 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 ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that President Donald Trump's plan to buy Greenland was "not a joke." ...

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 ...

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.

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