31-03-2010, 10:29 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:[quote=Helen Reyes]Iceland is in a geopolitically significant part of the "North Atlantic", and an Icelandic Camp Bondsteel, with military grade runways, radar, listening posts etc, would be militarily valuable as part of NATO's encirclement of the Russian Bear.
... as made vividly clear in the book "Red Storm Rising" and, to a lesser extent, in "The Hunt for Red October". Militarily, it is a critical piece of real estate, ice and volcanoes to the side.
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