The Arctic, a landscape so vast and unforgiving, now finds itself at the center of the world’s strategic gaze, where snowdrifts and ice floes hide not just the cold but growing military ambitions. Into this wilderness, U.S. forces have quietly placed their shoes….. a contingent of 130 soldiers and mobile rocket systems settling onto the windswept Shemya Island, tucked some 1,200 miles from Anchorage. The whispers of Russian and Chinese naval maneuvers near Alaska seem to echo more prominent these days, and the frozen quietness of the Arctic is pierced by the steady hum of military unstability. Tonight at 7:18…