High Profile, Low Availability: The Emerging US Maritime-Strategic Approach to NATO’s Northern Flank
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2022

In the 1990s and early 2000s, the United States held the Northern Flank a low priority in maritime-strategic considerations. Increasing Russian naval power, however, and a deterioration of the relationship between NATO and Russia following the 2014 invasion of Crimea, and the conflict in eastern Ukraine that followed, saw the Northern Flank return to maritime-strategic thinking around 2016. Given that the principal focus of US naval forces remains the Pacific, however, what are the central tenet