I saw this story on Jalopnik. Go there to read it...
But the issue that stands out to me is the lack of dedicated US ground forces to this region. The Russians have arctic troopers. The Canadians have regular forces that train extremely hard in arctic conditions
While other nations are dedicated their navies and ground forces to this soon to be vital region, we have done nothing.
The US Marines already have a world class mountain and cold weather training facility in Bridgeport. Maybe its time to leverage the winter package and create a SPMAGTF-Arctic and co-locate them at Ft. Wainwright to deal with this opportunity. The summer packages served us well for the mountains of Afghanistan so lets do it for this future battlefield.