Defense Monitor

The Newsletter That Went Back Out in the Cold

As the world watches an unprecedented Iran conflict unfold, NATO is engaged in a Cold War throwback: the cat-and mouse game of tracking Russian submarines through Arctic waters.
The Joint Operation Centre at the Norwegian Joint Headquarters has all the things you’d want in a submarine-tracking command center: buried in a mountain, wall-sized maps and soldiers staring intently at computers.Photographer: Dana Ullman/Bloomberg
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Since the last day of February, when missiles, drones and gunfire began making it unpleasant to drive a commercial ship through the Strait of Hormuz, the situation in the narrow waterway has been pretty dire.