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In the popular 1986 Tom Clancy Cold War thriller \u201cRed Storm Rising\u201d Soviet forces carry out a daring assault on Iceland, landing Soviet troops and destroying the NATO U.S. sub-hunting airbase at Keflav\u00edk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The island eventually is wrestled back by United States Marines who carry out an amphibious assault <\/a>on the Nordic island nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the description of Tom Clancy\u2019s breakout of World War III is not a far-fetched scenario, and the Corps may even be rehearsing such a possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the lead up to NATO\u2019s largest exercise in more than a decade, Trident Juncture, the Corps is planning a rehearsal amphibious landing on Iceland before it carries out the real thing in Norway for the NATO-led training evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 2,000 Marines and sailors embarked with the 24th Marine Expeditionary on board the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima<\/a> are steaming their way toward NATO\u2019s high north in preparation for the amphibious assault. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Iceland landing is a rehearsal for Trident Juncture<\/a>, is it really a message to Russia that the Corps and NATO can and will defend Iceland against Russian aggression?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Landing Craft Air Cushion unloads Light Armored Vehicles on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 4, 2018, during Type Commander Amphibious Training. TCAT allows the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, their subordinate units, and the U.S. Navy\u2019s Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group to rehearse ship to shore maneuver and expeditionary command and control prior to Exercise Trident Juncture 2018. (Gunnery Sgt. Robert Durham\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At a media roundtable event Oct. 10, the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller said he wouldn\u2019t speculate on people\u2019s perceptions of the planned landings and NATO exercise, but that Trident Juncture had been planned for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top Marines answer was in response to a question about the similarities between the Iceland rehearsal landing and Clancy\u2019s novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014, Soviet and Russian military expert Phillip Petersen published a report for the Defense Department<\/a> titled \u201cThe Northwestern TVD in Soviet Operational-Strategic Planning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petersen\u2019s research lays out a detailed road-map for how Russian forces could launch an attack on the Scandinavian countries and Europe\u2019s high north, and how NATO could thwart such aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his research, Petersen posits that Iceland is very much an attractive target for Russia and could even be captured just as it was described in Clancy\u2019s novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFaced with a predominantly sea-oriented NATO coalition dependent on control of the SLOCs [sea lines of communication], there can be no question but that the Soviets would have liked to capture or at least neutralize Iceland,\u201d Petersen said in his report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capture of Iceland would be a major strategic victory for Russian forces by opening up the Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom, or GIUK gap \u2014 a gateway for Russian naval and submarine forces in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ICELAND– (Sept. 13, 2017). An United States Air Force F-15C deployed to Keflavik Air Base, Iceland, as the 159th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, as part of a Theater Security Package, prepares to land after conducting an Air Surveillance mission in support of our NATO Alliance commitments, Sept. 13, 2017. Until the end of September 2017, the fighter aircraft from the Louisiana and Florida Air National Guard and approximately 280 Airmen and support equipment from the 125th Fighter Wing, Jacksonville Air National Guard Base, Fla. will be deployed to Keflavik Air Base to provide interceptor jets for NATO\u2019s mission safeguarding Icelandic airspace. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Staci Miller)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Clancy\u2019s thriller, a covert assault by Soviet forces embarked on a merchant barge vessel land on Iceland. While aircraft and Soviet airborne units destroy a small Marine company and aircraft on the Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Soviets did, in fact, have barge-carrying ships that could have, as in the novel, taken advantage of the normally low profile of Icelandic defenses before NATO reinforcement,\u201d Petersen said in his research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A way to thwart this, according to Petersen, is simply an early reinforcement of Iceland by NATO forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, the U.S. is amid plans to overhaul some of its former Cold War infrastructure at its airbase in Keflavik. Nearly $14 million is being spent on new hangars for sub-hunting Navy P-8 Poseidon <\/a>aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 40,000 troops from dozens of countries are slated to participate in Trident Juncture in Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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