Greenland and Danish Defense Policy

I discuss Greenland and Danish military policy with two professors at the Royal Danish Defense College, Olivier Schmitt and Ebsen Salling Larsen.
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Who am I?
Former CIA analyst, former RAND Senior Political Scientist, Currently Director of Global Programs at 14 North Strategies and RUSI Associate Fellow. Yale History Ph.D. Find me at https://michaelshurkin.com

Who's Oliver Schmitt? https://olivier-schmitt.com/
Who's Esben Salling Larsen? https://www.linkedin.com/in/esben-sal...

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My video on Denmark:    • All About the Danish Military  

Stuff I've written about Greenland/Denmark:
https://shurkin.substack.com/p/grabbi...
https://shurkin.substack.com/p/the-gr...
https://shurkin.substack.com/p/the-ni...
https://shurkin.substack.com/p/the-tr...
https://shurkin.substack.com/p/post-g...

Selected Works by Olivier Schmitt
"Préparer la guerre: Stratégie, innovation et puissance militaire à l’époque contemporaine": (https://amzn.to/49IdVVK)
"Preparing for War": https://amzn.to/3NBcz6w
"Allies That Count: Junior Partners in Coalition Warfare": https://www.amazon.com/Allies-That-Co...

Selected Works by Esben Salling Larsen
"The military geographies of Denmark: a new place in a familiar landscape.":
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
"Færøernes militærgeografiske betydning for USA og NATO": https://tidsskriftet-ip.no/index.php/...
"Planning for a new mission: Danish military role conception in a changing strategic landscape": https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/...

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Svetlana Alexievitch, “The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II.” https://amzn.to/3GyeDIV
Haruko Taya Cook, Japan at War: An Oral History, https://amzn.to/42Dpo5j.
Vasily Grossman, "Life and Fate." https://amzn.to/4gRzFz6
Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers", https://amzn.to/406gqfA
Ernst Jünger, “Storm of Steel”, https://amzn.to/4lWmyji
Ahmadou Kourouma, "Allah is not obliged." https://amzn.to/3PaEfwj
Robert Leckie, “Helmet for my Pillow: From Paris Island to the Pacific,” https://amzn.to/3YrmWwe
Väinö Linna, "Unknown Soldiers." https://amzn.to/41Rnazm
Jonathan Littell, "Les Bienveillantes, or The Kindly Ones."
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Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet on the Western Front." https://amzn.to/4iRvnJB
Pierre Schoendoerffer, "La 317e Section." https://amzn.to/40dmvG3
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. https://amzn.to/4iSkBlu

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Introducing Olivier Schmitt
01:26 Introducing Esben Salling Larsen
02:42 Reactions to Greenland crisis
03:21 Focus on capabilities, not Greenland per se
07:31 Danish defense policy since World War II
08:42 Danish defense policy post-Cold War
09:50 Impact of Ukraine, 2022
10:40 Cold War reservations
11:40 Hyperatlanticism post Cold War
16:31 Denmark's status as a frontline state
19:28 Danish force structure
22:09 Why Denmark no longer has submarines
24:44 Lingering neutrality post-war
29:56 Where does Greenland fit into Danish defense policy
30:41 Role of Greenland in US nuclear deterrence
38:57 The first Trump Administration's "ask"
40:05 How Denmark does military strategy
41:56 What happens now?