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In November 1948, the Army Arctic School was established at Big Delta with the primary mission of providing instruction in summer and winter operations under arctic and sub-arctic conditions. This training included arctic survival, mountaineering, skiing, and solutions to tactical, technical and logistical problems in cold regions.
Cold-weather warfare, also known as cold-region warfare, arctic warfare or winter warfare, encompasses military operations affected by snow, ice, thawing conditions, or cold, both on land and at sea, as well as the strategies and tactics used by military forces in these situations and environments.
The 11th Airborne Division ("Arctic Angels" [1]) is a United States Army multirole infantry division made up of specialized light infantry and airborne infantry based in Alaska. Currently, this unit specializes in arctic warfare, airborne operations, combined arms, maneuver warfare, and urban warfare.
The United States Ambassador-at-Large for Arctic Affairs advances the Arctic policy of the United States, engages with counterparts in Arctic and non-Arctic nations as well as Indigenous groups, and works closely with domestic stakeholders, including state, local, and Tribal governments, businesses, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, other federal government agencies, and ...
The Arctic Warfare Police, or simply AWP, version of the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifle has been frequently featured in popular first-person shooter video games such as Counter-Strike and Call of Duty. [72] [73] [74] It is usually portrayed as a sniper rifle for long range sniping and requires precision. [72]
When Arctic nations simulated a large oil spill for a virtual training exercise in March off northern Norway, Russia also took part - a rare sign of cooperation between Moscow and the West that ...
In the March 1980 edition of Dragon (Issue 35), Roberto Camino compared Ice War to SPI's War in the Ice, a similar game of arctic combat, although set in Antarctica. Camino preferred Ice Wars , saying that although the quality of the game materials in War in the Ice was superior to Ice War , the simple rules of Ice War were preferable to the ...
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