CDR Salamander - Greenland, AUKUS, and NATSEC Polar Politics, with Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan--on Midrats

Waves of different groups seeking new homes from east and west have arrived and disappeared on Greenland’s hostile shores for thousands of years. In the modern era of nation states, it is Greenland’s unique location and potential resources that are drawing attention once again as her strategic position once again brings her to the front.

Today’s Midrats Podcast is going to start there with our guest, Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan.

We will start live an hour later at 6 pm Eastern. You can listen at this link.

If you’re reading this after the show or on the email distro, visit the Substack page later Sunday night when I will update with all the podcast links.

We will kick off with her latest book as a touchstone to our conversation, So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump.

Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan is a senior fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a polar geopolitics expert. She is a visiting fellow in US-Australia alliance studies at the Center for the National Interest in Washington DC. Most recently she was Head of Research for the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre (Department of Defence) and a First Sea Lord Five Eyes fellow with the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.

Dr. Buchanan is co-director and co-founder of polar warfare studies at the Modern War Institute of the West Point Military Academy. Before joining Defence, Dr Buchanan was lecturer of strategic studies for the Defence and Strategic Studies course at the Australian War College. Elizabeth holds a PhD in Russian Arctic strategy and completed her post-doctoral studies as a maritime fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. She has published widely on geopolitics, most recently with Australian Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Australian, and The American Conservative.

Dr. Buchanan has been a visiting scholar with the Brookings Institution and was an analyst with Royal Dutch Shell. Elizabeth has two prior books: Russian Energy Strategy in Asia and Red Arctic: Russian Arctic Strategy under Putin. In addition to, So you want to own Greenland, she also has an upcoming book, Competitive Cooperation at the Ends of the Earth.

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