General Discussion

Greenland’s new foreign-, security-, and defense policy strategy stakes a course within defense and diplomacy, while sharing visions of how its international relations can be improved through commerce and communication. From a Danish perspective, the strategy will make it easier to find common ground between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands – altogether constituting the Kingdom of Denmark – on how to address the security policy dynamics in the Arctic.

… Since Greenland has not taken over defense policy, the strategy can get away with a general call to Denmark and Denmark’s allies that Greenland preferably does not want more military capabilities, and if they cannot be avoided, they should preferably be limited to surveillance capabilities without the ability to defeat hostile platforms. This gives an indication of how Greenland will position itself in future discussions – including the next Danish defense agreement, in which Greenland will be involved – but it is unclear how Greenland will position itself if the security policy situation necessitates more potent capabilities.

https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/greenland-stakes-course-defense-diplomacy/

Note Denmark was a founding member of NATO and still is in NATO.