Troops from Europe deploy to Greenland in rapid 2-day mission as Trump eyes US takeover

Troops from respective European countries deployed to Greenland and are connected the crushed determination Thursday for a speedy 2-day ngo to bolster the territory’s defenses. 

France, Germany, Sweden and Norway are participating successful the exercise, Fox News has learned. Leaders accidental the ngo is meant to show they tin deploy subject assets "quickly." 

The improvement comes arsenic the Trump medication is pushing to get the Danish territory. Germany deployed a reconnaissance squad of 13 personnel, France sent 15 upland specialists and Sweden, Norway and Britain sent three, 2 and 1 officers, respectively, according to Reuters. 

"The geopolitical tensions person dispersed to the Arctic. The Government of Greenland, and the Danish Ministry of Defense person truthful decided to proceed the Danish Armed Forces’ accrued workout enactment successful Greenland, successful adjacent practice with NATO allies," the Danish Ministry of Defense said successful a connection Wednesday. 

"From today, determination volition beryllium an expanded subject beingness successful and astir Greenland — successful adjacent practice with NATO allies. The intent is to bid the quality to run nether the unsocial Arctic conditions and to fortify the alliance’s footprint successful the Arctic, benefiting some European and transatlantic security," it added.

An Airbus A400M transport craft of the German Air Force taxis implicit the grounds astatine Wunstorf Air Base successful the Hanover region, Germany, connected Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, arsenic troops from NATO countries, including France and Germany, are arriving successful Greenland to boost security. (Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via AP)

"As portion of the accrued beingness successful the Arctic and North Atlantic, the Danish Armed Forces are, from today, deploying capabilities and units related to the workout activities. In the play ahead, this volition effect successful an accrued subject beingness successful and astir Greenland, comprising aircraft, vessels and soldiers, including from NATO allies," the Danish Ministry of Defense besides said. 

It said the workout activities successful 2026 "could see guarding captious infrastructure, providing assistance to section authorities successful Greenland, including the police, receiving allied troops, deploying combatant craft successful and astir Greenland, and conducting naval operations." 

"Some officers from the Swedish Armed Forces are arriving successful Greenland today," Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote connected X connected Wednesday. "They are portion of a radical from respective allied countries. Together they volition hole upcoming steps wrong the model of the Danish workout Operation Arctic Endurance. It is astatine the petition of Denmark that Sweden is sending unit from the Armed Forces." 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Reuters connected Thursday that, "The American ambition to instrumentality implicit Greenland is intact."

"That is of people serious, and truthful we proceed our efforts to forestall this script becoming a reality," helium added. 

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Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance astatine the White House connected Wednesday. 

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