OPERATION ITHAQUA

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OPERATION ITHAQUA: A Realistic Assessment of Total Territorial Denial in Greenland Through Asymmetric Warfare

Confidential Strategic Report – Prepared for Arctic Irregular Defense Command (AIDC) Date: October 2023 

Executive Summary:

Operation Ithaqua outlines a sustained asymmetric warfare doctrine designed to make Greenland militarily, politically, and logistically indefensible to U.S. occupation forces. Built on a foundation of Finnish military doctrine, hardened Arctic insurgents, and a comprehensive infrastructure of sabotage, the strategy assumes no adherence to the Geneva Convention, with a singular objective: make Greenland an ungovernable, high-cost territory in perpetuity.

Objectives:

• Prevent permanent occupation by U.S.  forces

• Maximize foreign military and political casualties

• Expand conflict to the U.S. mainland via decentralized terror operations

• Foster a narrative of existential resistance and strategic futility

Terrain and Strategic Factors:

• Greenland covers 2.1 million km^2, 85% ice-covered

• Inhospitable terrain, minimal infrastructure, minimal road access

• 56,000 civilian population, dispersed along coastlines

• Harsh weather conditions inhibit traditional logistics and surveillance

Force Composition:

• Core resistance cells: 3,200 armed combatants

• Trained by: Finnish Jaeger units, Arctic survivalists, retired SF operators

• Operational model: Decentralized 4-cell autonomous units with local support

• Support base: Civilian sympathizers (~12,000), local logistics, embedded sensors

Doctrine:

• Maximalist territorial denial via continuous sabotage

• Utilization of landscape: avalanche traps, glacial tunnel collapses, meltwater flooding

• Psychological warfare: severed signals, propaganda, symbolic assassinations

• Use of mined terrain, drone ambushes, and smartcam traps

• Active bio- and cyber-disruption operations

Logistics and Supply:

• Warfighting stockpiles embedded in geothermal sites, fishing villages, deep caves

• Indigenous supply chains adapted to military use

• Portable 3D manufacturing of components and drone repair parts

Escalation Protocols:

1. Stage I (Invasion Response):

   • IED deployment on all logistical paths

   • Sniper suppression of airfields and staging zones

   • Attacks on fuel depots and heating units

2. Stage II (Occupation Denial):

   • Avalanche bombing and infrastructure cannibalization

   • Systematic elimination of U.S. logistics officers, drone operators, and intel assets

   • Psychological operations: sound warfare, glacial disappearances

3. Stage III (Homeland Pressure Campaign):

   • Deployment of U.S.-based sleeper agents trained in infrastructure disruption

   • Targeting of maritime logistics hubs (e.g. Long Beach, Houston)

   • Selective assassinations of high-value civilian targets (defense, energy sector)

4. Stage IV (Post-Occupation Scorched Protocol):

   • Final-phase release of biocontaminants into supply routes

   • Cyber-release of archived U.S. atrocities, raw unedited footage

   • Collapse of geothermal assets with cascading environmental damage

Projected Casualty Ratios:

Phase	Estimated Resistance Losses	Estimated U.S. Losses
I	1,000	3,000
II	800	6,000
III	300	10,000+
IV	500	Indirect: 50,000+ (via mainland attacks)

Conclusion:

Operation Ithaqua represents a long-prepared, sustainable, low-visibility insurgency model explicitly designed to make Greenland impossible to conquer. Should the U.S. attempt a military occupation, it will inherit an open wound in the Arctic, bleeding out morale, resources, political capital, and public support with no path to stabilization.

Greenland is not territory to be taken. It is terrain to be lost in.

“You do not conquer the cold. The cold conquers you.”