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	Iceland Defense Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iceland Defense Force (IDF) is the military body responsible for protecting Iceland, headquartered at Keflavík, and manned by United States military personnel.
		The IDF was created in 1951 when, at the request of NATO, the United States signed an agreement to provide for the defense of Iceland and the North Atlantic.
		The air force component of the force is the 85th Group, whereas its army component, responsible for the ground defense of Iceland, is the U.S. Army Iceland (ARICE), consisting entirely of reserve components from the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Icelandic_Defense_Force (219 words)

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		Iceland's nickname, the Land of Frost and Fire, is appropriate because of the proximity of glaciers, hot springs and volcanoes.
		Iceland is smack in the middle of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, a moderating influence on the island.
		Iceland's labor force is approximately 145,000 (as of 1994) with commerce, transportation, and services at 60%; manufacturing at 12.5%; fishing/fish processing at 11.8%; construction at 10.8%, agriculture at 4% and other at 0.9%.
	www.chez.com /oeily/englit/icelandwkc.html (1365 words)

	Military-note. The World Factbook. 2003
		defense is the responsibility of France and Spain
		defense is the responsibility of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
		defense is the responsibility of France; small contingent of French forces stationed on the island
	www.bartleby.com /151/fields/130.html (866 words)

	ipedia.com: Military of Iceland Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Iceland's main contribution to the common defense effort has been the rent-free provision of the "agreed areas"--sites for military facilities.
		Iceland and the United States regard the ongoing U.S. military presence since World War II as a cornerstone to bilateral foreign/security policy.
		Iceland hosted the NATO Foreign Minister' Meeting in Reykjavik in June 1987 and participates in biennial NATO exercises entitled "Northern Viking" in Iceland; the next exercises were held in 2001.
	www.ipedia.com /military_of_iceland.html (362 words)

	Airman: Storm watch: Iceland's weather often overshadows Air Force mission
		The naval station -- home to the joint-billeted Iceland Defense Force -- is a stone's throw from the Arctic Circle, wedged between Greenland and the invaluable, oil-rich storehouses beneath the North Sea.
		Icelanders still speak the language of the Vikings, although modern Icelandic has undergone changes of pronunciation and vocabulary.
		An Icelander's Christian name is followed by his or her father's name and the suffix -son or dottir.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBP/is_10_46/ai_93318039 (1436 words)

	Military of Iceland
		When Iceland became a founding member of NATO in 1949, it did so on the explicit understanding that Iceland, which has never had a military, would not be expected to establish an indigenous force.
		Iceland hosted the NATO Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Reykjavík in June 1987 and participates in biennial NATO exercises entitled "Northern Viking" in Iceland; the next exercises were held in 2001.
		The Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) is the military body responsible for protecting Iceland, headquartered at Keflavík, and manned by United States military personnel.
	www.everythingicelandic.everythingscandinavian.com /military.htm (711 words)

	Iceland
		Iceland is one of the major breeding grounds of waterfowls in Europe, and Lake Mývatn is renowned for its abundance of waterfowl.
		Iceland is one of few places where the whooper swan is still a common breeding bird.
		On the towering bird cliffs along the coast of Iceland, the most important sea birds are the common guillemot, Brunnich's guillemot, the razorbill, the puffin, the kittiwake, the fulmar, and the gannet.
	www.iceland.freewebspace.com /c.htm (5860 words)

	Iceland Defense Force
		Iceland Defense Force (IDF), Keflavik, Iceland, is a subordinate unified command of U.S. Joint Forces Command and is composed of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel as well as local Icelandic civilians.
		The commander and his staff are responsible for actions taken in compliance with inter-governmental agreements and for conducting all joint planning matters affecting the defense of Iceland.
		The ground defense of Iceland is the responsibility of U.S. Army Iceland (ARICE), the Army component of the Iceland Defense Force, consisting entirely of reserve components from the United States.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/dod/idf.htm (341 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		Iceland has no armed forces and from the very first beginning the Police has been organized on non-military lines.
		The Police in Iceland are very restricted in their use of force and the Police Officers are unarmed while on duty except with a short baton but they are all trained in the use of firearms.
		Iceland has no armed forces of its own, as the Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) is provided by the US government.
	www.specialoperations.com /Foreign/Iceland (360 words)

	Iceland Defense Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) is the military body responsible for protecting Iceland, headquartered at KeflavÃk, and...
		The Iceland Defense Force is a subordinate unified command of U.S. European Command and is composed of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel as well as local Icelandic civilians.
		Iceland Defense Force (IDF), Keflavik, Iceland, is a subordinate unified command...
	www.icelandtrekking.com /iceland-defense-force.html (295 words)

	Iceland HQ : Icelandic Air
		Icelandic Sheep in the Washington DC area, Nordicsheep is the source
		The Iceland Princess, an affordable luxury hotel in central Reykjavik Iceland.Located in city center on a quiet upscale residential street.
		Iceland HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	www.icelandhq.com /icelandicair/index.php (701 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Norway's Search for a Nordpolitik - Johan J. Holst
		Their area is very large in relation to their populations; the "metropolitan area" of the five Nordic countries is larger than that of France, West Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Portugal combined, while the population is about one-tenth (22.5 million compared to 205 million).
		A Nordic defense community would be incapable of maintaining the maritime forces needed to protect the distant territories of Greenland, the Faeroes, Jan Mayen and Svalbard.
		It would occupy a key strategic location from the point of view of the East-West balance in general and the defense of Western Europe in particular, but local stability could presumably only be obtained by a Nordic defense community through accommodation with the Soviet Union, the dominant power in Northern Europe.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19810901faessay8199/johan-j-holst/norway-s-search-for-a-nordpolitik.html?mode=print (626 words)

	Iceland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There was a 4-hour time difference between US East Coast and my destination: by Icelanders' standard, my plane took off at 1:30 AM, only to hail their high-latitude sunrise at 4:03AM.
		Politically, Iceland is divided into 23 counties and 14 independent towns.
		With no armed forces but only police and coast guards, Iceland's defense has been provided by the US all along since WWII.
	www.cs.jhu.edu /~yliu/Tour/iceland/iceland-touchdown.html (421 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Iceland Defense Force (IDF) is a subordinate unified command of U.S. European Command and is composed of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel as well as local Icelandic civilians.
		IDF was established in 1951 when, at the request of NATO, the United States signed an agreement to provide for the defense of Iceland and the North Atlantic.
		The designated approving authority is Iceland Defense Force Public Affairs Office (354-425-4552).
	www.nctskef.navy.mil /IDF (219 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Military - note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		So is creation of a rapid-reaction military force and a humanitarian aid system, which the planning unit will support.
		defense is the responsibility of the UK; the last British regular infantry forces left Gibraltar in 1992, replaced by the Royal Gibraltar Regiment
		defense is the responsibility of France; the Palace Guard performs ceremonial duties (2003)
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/fields/2137.html (1007 words)

	USIGS Definitions and Descriptions - I
		A Department of Defense (DoD) account of imagery derived information pertaining to one or more specified targets, and resulting from exploitation of imagery from one or more collection systems and one or more collection missions.
		ISTOP is an Air Force Reserve initiative and is scheduled to be fielded with AF Reserve units in the 1994-97 timeframe (funding permitting).
		A central force orbit that is tangent to the real orbit at some point.
	www.fas.org /irp/agency/nima/nug/gloss_i.html (9814 words)

	SHAPE News
		According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German Defense Ministry confirmed over the weekend that the United States has asked Germany to take command of the international naval task force patrolling the waters off the Horn of Africa as part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
		Athens Flash Radio reported that in an interview Monday, Greek Defense Minister Papandoniou stressed it is in Greece’s interest to break as soon as possible the current deadlock regarding arrangements enabling the EU to use NATO’s assets, provided some basic requests are met.
		The commander is Gen. Ralston and I had talks with him about the changes in the command of the IDF in February.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2002/04/mil-020422-shape02.htm (1128 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Two other coalition members, Iceland and the Solomon Islands, likewise lack independent militaries and are incapable of providing independent combat assistance.
		Iceland's 279,000 residents are defended by a U.S.-manned Icelandic Defense Force, while the Solomon Islands are protected by the Royal Solomon Islands Police, according to the CIA World Factbook.
		In still other cases, coalition countries are providing tangible assistance that still falls well short of war-fighting forces, and that's markedly less martial than during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=IRAQ-COALITION-03-21-03&cat=AN (498 words)

	USAFE News Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 85th Group was realigned from 3rd Air Force, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, to the 48th FW during a largely symbolic ceremony presided over by Maj. Gen.
		As a component of the U.S. European Command's Iceland Defense Force, the 85th Group is a tenant unit of NAS Keflavík, strategically located on the NATO base in the southwest corner of Iceland.
		As the “Guardians of the North,” the 85th Group is responsible for deterring aggression in the north Atlantic, protecting Iceland’s airspace and supporting contingency operations.
	www.usafe.af.mil /news/news04/uns04426.htm (481 words)

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		The economy is heavily dependent on the fishing industry, which provides nearly 75% of export earnings.
		In the absence of other natural resources, Iceland's economy is vulnerable to changing world fish prices.
		The economic improvements resulting from climbing fish prices in 1990 and a noninflationary labor agreement probably will be reversed by tighter fish quotas and a delay in the construction of an aluminum smelting plant.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/doc/general/wfb/Iceland (165 words)

	Country Reports
		a CIS peacekeeping force consisting of Russian troops is deployed in the Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in South Ossetia
		Iceland's defense is provided by the US-manned Icelandic Defense Force (IDF) headquartered at Keflavik
		Nauru maintains no defense forces; under an informal agreement, Australia is responsible for defense of the island
	www.classbrain.com /cb_cr/fields/military_-_note.html (782 words)

	Articles - NATO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NATO argued its nuclear weapons sharing arrangements did not breach the treaty as U.S. forces controlled the weapons until a decision is made to go to war, at which point the treaty would no longer be controlling.
		This is supposed to mean matching defenses at the level rendered necessary by the Warsaw Pact's offensive capabilities without spurring a further arms race.
		Iceland, the sole member of NATO which does not have its own military force (the Icelandic Defense Force being the United States Military contingent permanently stationed in Iceland), joined on the condition that they would not be expected to establish one.
	www.zdiamond.net /articles/NATO (3216 words)

	About RAF Lakenheath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Liberty Wing consists of approximately 5,500 active-duty military members, 2,700 British, Icelandic and U.S. civilians, and includes geographically separated units at nearby RAF Feltwell as well as the 85th Group at Keflavik Naval Air Station, Iceland.
		In addition to supporting three combat-ready squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle and F-15C Eagle fighter aircraft at RAF Lakenheath, the wing's 85th Group forms the air component of the Icelandic Defense Force through assimilation of expeditionary forces as well as permanent party personnel employing in-place HH-60s and rotational F-15A/Cs.
		Colonel Silveria entered the Air Force as a 1985 graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree.
	www.lakenheath.af.mil /about/cv.htm (489 words)

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		While operating with this task group USS Carr was charged with enforcing United Nations sanctions against the government of Iraq that followed in the wake of the invasion of Kuwait in August of 1991.
		He is the editor and writer, as well as handling the layout, copy and delivery of a publication that has grown from a single typed page to a multi-page, glossy, professionally produced gazette.
		According to Janeic, the Icelanders hold natural disaster exercises every two years, and part of the exercise involves support from elements from the Icelandic defense force.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/news/eurnews/eur94/eur94012.txt (4629 words)

	Nations Joining Anti-Iraq Coalition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About 60 German soldiers are in Kuwait as part of the U.N. border monitoring force, operating specialized vehicles for detecting chemical or germ warfare; parliament has barred them from entering Iraq.
		Defense Minister Prince Sultan confirmed this month that Araar Airport, near Iraqi border, was closed to civilian traffic.
		Looks like they are out in force today stating how many countries are in our coalition.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/868113/posts (874 words)

	Iceland HQ : Icelandic Defense Force
		Novel in which Bush, Putin, and Mrs Thatcher are spacenapped and taken to anintergalactic zoo by aliens.
		Responsible for all US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Special Forcesactivities in more than 13 million square miles of Europe, Africa and the Middle...
		Promoting human rights and the training of lawyers in human rights and internationalcriminal law, and reporting on the respect of defense rights.
	www.icelandhq.com /icelandicdefenseforce/index.php (804 words)

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		The 215th Army Band of the Massachusetts National Guard, under the command of CW4 James M. Girard, is distinguished with many awards for military training as well as musicianship.
		Some of the military awards include the Eisenhower Trophy for the most outstanding company-size unit and a NATO Commendation from the Commander of the Icelandic Defense Force.
		During the 1986 Presidential Summit with the Soviet Union in Iceland the 215th was the only United States military band to perform for President Reagan.
	www.angelfire.com /ma/215th (263 words)

	Karl Joseph Bernstein, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		After a tour in Italy at NATO Allied Forces South, he served as commanding officer of Naval Air Station Jacksonville from 1974 to 1976.
		He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1976 and commanded the Icelandic Defense Force and Fleet Air Keflavik until 1978.
		He was a graduate of the Naval War college in Newport, RI and the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /kjberns.htm (289 words)

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