ICEX: how Americans defend the Arctic

For any time, the Arctic area has again become a field of rivalry between respective powers and another countries in the world. The hitherto almost neutral, vast spaces are slow being re-militarized, as the political and economical importance of this area is constantly increasing and many years of neglect must be rapidly eliminated. Since the sixties of the last century, the US Navy has been implementing ICEX exercises, which let not only to make appropriate submarine combat tactics, but are besides an arena of intensive investigation on a reasonably wide scale of interest.