Beneath Greenland's ice sits a Cold War radar station that still watches the sky for missiles — and a fight over rare earths, sovereignty and Arctic control that has put the island at the center of American foreign policy. This is the real geography behind Trump's Greenland ambitions.

Beyond the Pacific reveals why the Arctic, Svalbard, Greenland, and the GIUK Gap have become critical frontiers in twenty-first-century geopolitics and great-power competition.