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Amid escalating Arctic tensions, Operation Polar Dagger unfolds as a decisive U.S. military mission, spotlighting coalition Special Operations Forces in a series of rigorous exercises across Alaska's frigid expanse.
The Army's Night Stalker Black Hawks are loaded with sensors, defensive systems, and communications gear to take on the hardest of missions.
“It's really both competitors we see operating up there, routinely,” commander says.
Shemya Island hosts a strategic missile tracking radar and a large airfield, and sits closer to Russia than to mainland Alaska.