Overview
- DR reported that Copenhagen ran a covert January effort called Arctic Resistance, publicly framed as an exercise but designed to counter a possible U.S. move on the island.
- Elite Danish troops were sent to Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq with orders to disable key infrastructure, with explosives staged to crater airport runways.
- Blood supplies were flown from Danish banks to Greenland to support potential transfusions if fighting broke out with U.S. forces.
- Denmark sought support from European partners, with political cover and limited deployments including French assets and other allied contingents to raise the cost of any unilateral action.
- Danish ministries and the prime ministers’ offices declined comment, while elements were echoed by the Financial Times and by an anonymous senior officer quoted by the BBC as the disclosures shaped debate ahead of Denmark’s vote.