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The Cold War and the Cold War in the United States
In 1949 u.s. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Emil Bodry convinced the superiors that Greenland was likely to be the quote avenue of approach for untold destruction and unless guarded could well spend well spelled doom for the United States as a nation. mastering and defending Greenland however required mastering its ice sheet and new glacial logical knowledge was only possible with the resources available to the u.S. military in 1949 unribader Henry Bader said. The substantial growth of glaciology and subsequent decades relied to an important degree on these military demands militarization of the polar regions were pursued by a particular group of men as policymakers who are products of specific elite masculinities.