Joint Arctic Command's primary mission in peacetime is to ensure Danish sovereignty by monitoring the area around the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

In short, the Joint Arctic Command handles military tasks, coast guard duties and disaster response - all in one organisation.

It is the 1st Squadron that handles tasks pertaining to Arctic Ocean affairs, such as maritime defence and enforcement of sovereignty in Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters.

The new vessels will incorporate a modular concept enabling packages of different systems (for minehunting or minelaying for example) to be fitted to individual ships as may be required.

[30][31][32][33] Climate change is leading to increasing economic and research activity and at the same time has a significant security and defence policy impact.

Andreas Østhagen[34] has argued that the maritime activity levels are forcing Arctic coastal states to provide increasing presence and more capabilities.

The conciliation group (forligskredsen) decided to grant DKK 1.5 billion from the defence settlement for 2018-2023 provide better opportunities to survey Denmark's territories in the North Atlantic and the Arctic.

The Joint Arctic Command is therefore a significant and necessary tool to have for the Unity of the realm in order to enforce the foreign and domestic policy that the Danish government wishes to.