Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic

《Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic》是記者 Kenneth R. Rosen 的親地調查報導，揭示氣候變遷如何讓北極成為俄羅斯、美國、中國等大國的新冷戰前線，冰層融化開啟航道、資源與戰略要地，伴隨間諜、潛艦對峙與環境災難。

俄羅斯間諜、核潛艦、被破壞的天然氣管線──地球暖化最快的北極，正從冰封荒原變成全球權力角力場！作者親身搭乘美國海岸警衛隊巡邏挪威破冰船，跟隨海豹部隊北極戰訓，探訪原住民村莊與科學站，揭露21國在融冰下的軍事野心、資源爭奪與生物武器風險。這是旅行日誌與前線報導的完美結合，預測「無冰夏季」即將來臨，警告美國若繼續「睡大覺」，歐洲北極已準備開戰！

A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war, where a struggle for dominance between the planet’s great powers heralds the next global conflict.

Russian spies. Nuclear submarines. Sabotaged pipelines. Undersea communications severed in the dark of night. The fastest-warming place on earth—where apartment buildings, hospitals, and homes crumble daily as permafrost melts and villages get washed away by rising seas—the Arctic stands at the crossroads of geopolitical ambition and environmental catastrophe. As climate change thaws the northern latitudes, opening once ice-bound shipping lanes and access to natural resources, the world’s military powers are rushing to stake their claims in this increasingly strategic region. We’ve entered a new cold war—and every day it grows hotter.

In Polar War, Kenneth R. Rosen takes readers on an extraordinary journey across the changing face of the far north. Through intimate portraits of scientists, soldiers, and Indigenous community leaders representing the interests of twenty-one countries across four continents, he witnesses firsthand how rising temperatures and growing tensions are reshaping life above and below the Arctic Circle. He finds himself on the trail of Navy SEALs training for arctic warfare, embarks on Coast Guard patrols monitoring Russian incursions, participates in close-quarter-combat training aboard foreign icebreakers in the Arctic sea ice, and visits remote research stations where international cooperation is giving way to espionage and the search for long-frozen biological weapons.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change and great power competition, Rosen blends incisive analysis with the vivid immediacy of a travelogue. His deeply researched and personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes, people, and conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the next global conflict.