Opinion: The gathering storm in the Arctic


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A conference title can be a diagnosis. When defense officials, scholars and industry leaders gathered near Newport, Rhode Island, in late June for a maritime security symposium convened by the U.S. Naval War College’s Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, the title “Gathering Storms and Shifting Tides” proved fitting. Climate change, great-power competition, technological disruption and legal uncertainty are converging faster than the institutions meant to manage them can adapt. The Arctic was once associated with exceptionalism: Harsh conditions and isolation helped keep great-power rivalry at bay, while even amid strategic rivalry, cooperation in science, shipping and search and…

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