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Iceland is key to NATO — but Iceland's prime minister worries about militarization in the North Atlantic - ArcticToday
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Why did the Allies not build an airfield on Greenland, as they did in Iceland, so as to further reduce the size of the mid–Atlantic gap with long range aircraft? - Quora
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joe on Twitter: "@AncientSubHunt The G (Greenland) I (Iceland) UK (United Kingdom) is as strategically important now as it was in the old Cold War Days #giukgap" / Twitter
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