The United States position in the Arctic, thanks to Alaska, is of enormous strategic ____. Alaska, one of the richest U.S. states thanks to its ____ of natural ____, is the country's only connection to the energy rich Arctic region. In the foreseeable future, the U.S. is expected to increase its ____ presence in Alaska, as it might use the state as a base for its operations in the ____ Ocean. The roughly 29,000 active duty, ____ reserve, and defense civilian ____ is the equivalent of about 9% of Alaska's workforce. The ____ plays a major role in the state. It is expected that Alaska will soon boast the largest ____ of the U.S. fifth-generation military ____ on the planet. The state is also a key part of the U.S. ____ system, with military bases located in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Alaska is also a central component of the U.S. ____ defense system, as it provides a perfect location to monitor Russian ____ ballistic missile launches via the radar bases sited in this American state. Apart from the ____, Alaska also has a high geoeconomic significance for the ____ It has vast amounts of natural resources, such as ____, gold, natural gas, zinc, as well as large coal ____. Petroleum production ____ the 1990s and has been steadily decreasing since then. Alaska's potential oil reserves are still very large. However, ____ to drill for petroleum along the Beaufort Sea coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as well as in the National Petroleum Reserve has been met with continuing ____ opposition. Reportedly, the Russian Federation already derives 20% of its ____ domestic product from economic activity in the Arctic. Alaska's ____ depends on a thriving oil and gas industry, and if Russia had not ____ this territory to the United States, it could have had not only more ____, but also a strategically important huge piece of land. There are many theories that are trying to explain why Russia sold Alaska to the United States. The most common one is that Alaska was difficult to ____ and Russia was short on cash due to the costs of the war in ____. On March 30th, 1867, the U.S. Secretary of State William Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of ____.

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