{"id":6734,"date":"2026-02-09T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:14:08","slug":"nato-set-to-launch-arctic-sentry-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6734\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO set to launch Arctic Sentry mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO<\/a> is expected to launch a mission in the coming days that could boost its surveillance and military assets in the Arctic, five sources told Reuters, following tensions between US President Donald Trump<\/a> and European allies over Greenland.<\/p>\n

A launch of the Arctic Sentry mission could come as early as this week, when the alliance’s defense ministers meet in Brussels, according to three European diplomats, a military official and a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Arctic Sentry could involve military exercises, increased surveillance, additional vessels and air assets in the region, including drones, the diplomats said.<\/p>\n

However, officials said the mission would likely focus on using NATO resources in the region more effectively rather than adding large amounts of new forces.<\/p>\n

The mission was “part of the Alliance’s efforts to further enhance our deterrence and defense in the region, particularly in light of Russia’s military<\/a> activity and China’s growing interest in the High North,” a NATO official told Reuters in an email.<\/p>\n

The mission was expected to be operational soon, the official said.<\/p>\n

NATO said last week it had begun planning for the mission, following talks in Davos<\/a> between Trump and NATO boss Mark Rutte that eased severe strains over Trump’s ambition to acquire Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.<\/p>\n

Officials said no final decision had been taken and military planners were still working on options.<\/p>\n

But NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, US Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, said on Monday planning was in the “final stages.”<\/p>\n

Speaking on a visit to Luxembourg, Grynkewich said he would receive a briefing on planning for the mission from NATO’s Joint Force Command in Norfolk, Virginia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“If the brief goes well … we might have something that we can announce later this week on how we’re moving forward on that,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO is expected to launch a mission in the coming days that could boost its surveillance and military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,174,3390,184,57,1111,74,238],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-davos","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-russia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}