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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
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
NATO anti-submarine warfare exercise Dynamic Mongoose to begin in North Atlantic > U.S. Strategic Command > News Article View
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