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Iceland’s Parliament May Soon Seek Greater Control Over Militarisation Plans
As US military interest in Iceland grows, an MP seeks to grant Parliament more power over whether and how the NATO base in Keflavík is developed, Fréttablaðið reports. Leftist-Green MP Kolbeinn Óttarsson Proppé intends to submit a bill which would give Iceland’s…
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Foreign Minister: No Plans To Re-Open Naval Air Base
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir says American authorities have made no request to re-open the base, and says a recent think-tank report recommending such is simply a part of the discussion on national security. As reported, the Center for Strategic…
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US Encouraged To Re-Open Naval Air Station In Iceland
A strategic think tank believes the US military should re-open the former base in Iceland, as a part of a larger strategy against Russian military activity in the North Atlantic. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) just released a new…
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Witnessing The End Of An Era
Even modest deployments of the vast US military leave a large footprint. In a country the size of Iceland, and a town the size of Keflavík, the economic and cultural impact of their presence is still evident today, ten years after they…
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The Base As A Bridge Built On Good Intentions
In the 1940s, the most common way for a young man to see the world was to join the army. For young women, it was nursing. I mean this from a North American perspective. It’s strange to look at all the young…
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All About That Base
Early in February, news reached Icelanders that American troops were coming back to Iceland after a ten-year absence. While the truth of the matter is not as dramatic, we did not learn about this from our Prime Minister, or any other government…
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My Memories Of The NATO Base, Or Why I Got A Bad Feeling About This
Like many people in Iceland, I read today’s news about the US Navy “returning” to Iceland with a mixture of emotions. As has been pointed out, this news does not exactly mean thousands of troops are going to offload on our shores…