Veep JD Vance on Sunday refrained from setting expectations too high about President Trump’s chances of usurping Greenland ...

NORAD sent two F-16s from Alaska to Greenland to reinforce posture in the Arctic; meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

Robert J. Walker, a 19th century senator turned Washington-based lobbyist and one of the driving forces behind the annexation ...

The Danish-controlled island is coveted by some external actors who see the vast territory as a vector for precious minerals and great-power politics.

Though the president-elect's rhetoric is unusual, for over a century a succession of US presidents have tried to gain control of Greenland.

STUTTGART, Germany — President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion this week that the United States must take possession of Greenland ... Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base.

For starters, the Thule Air Force base. It has been in operation since 1941, when it was known as US Air Force Base Greenland and served as a staging area for operations in Europe by US aircraft ...

The US already has a military presence on Greenland, at Pituffik Air Base (formerly Thule Air Base), which hosts ... In all, about 200 active-duty US Air Force and Space Force personnel are ...

“Greenland is historically important to the United States,” said Hans Kristensen ... from the Army Corps of Engineers to build Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland for the Strategic ...

Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air ... into Greenland during World War II, when Denmark fell to a German invasion, and the Danish ambassador in Washington asked the United States ...

Denmark is promising significant upgrades to its defence posture on the island of Greenland ... US Air Force engineers installed an arresting wire system at Pituffik, opening up the base to ...