The contemporary political history of Greenland
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- Evicted by the US military, the Inuit prepare
to fight Star Wars
- By Steve Boggan, Independent (London), 7
August 2001. A remote US space command squadron, will
likely be one of two bases outside the US—the other
is at Fylingdales, North Yorkshire—that will be for
ballistic missile defence, aka
Son of Star Wars
. A
tiny community of Inuit people evicted to make way for it
are about to find itself at the centre of American foreign
policy making.
- Greenland radar cleared for U.S. missile
defense
- By Wade Boese, Arms Control Today,
July/August 2004. The Danish parliament has
unanimously approved a Bush administration request to
upgrade a radar located in Greenland so it can play a
future role in a planned U.S. missile defense
system. Although the proposal sparked some debate in
Denmark and Greenland, 101 Danish lawmakers voted May 27
in favor of the move.