Iceland signed yesterday a joint declaration on defence matters with the United States – including a “temporary presence of the US Army” in Iceland.
The declaration is an addendum to the deal signed back with the US Government back in 2006 putting an end to permanent US military presence. It states that “the security situation in Europe and the North Atlantic region has changed” since the US Army left.
From the Iceland Monitor, HERE.
Note- It does say ASW, and last time I looked the US Army doesn’t ‘quite’ have that capability… Of course the Icelanders consider all services to be US Army. We loved that, because it meant THEY got the blame in the press, not us…
Ah yes, the fun days in Kef, the smell of drying fish… Snowing sideways at -30… The nearest divert 2+ hours away…
And with the Brits and Dutch out of the ASW game, it falls back on the US, Canada, Spain and Germany to pick up the load of the GIUK gap… They French are too busy drinking wine in the back of the bus to bother to participate, and the Portuguese are waiting to pick up the targets south of the dog box…
Good times… 🙂
