Icebreakers: Future Force Projection? Often Overlooked Vessels For An Increasingly Strategic Arena

By James W Monroe

Message from the Editor

Many leading Arctic nations are engaging programmes to build more icebreakers or to otherwise modernise or refit their icebreaking capability. China is an emerging polar nation with icebreakers and an overall presence in the Arctic only set to increase – and perhaps to overtake – existing Russian Arctic dominance. A 20 minute read.

“The United States is an Arctic nation, and the Coast Guard is vital to providing presence in our sovereign waters and the polar regions… As we continue to build the Polar Security Cutters, acquiring a commercially available polar icebreaker will enable the Coast Guard to increase our national presence in the Arctic.”1gCaptain, 15 Aug 24, Coast Guard Reveals More on Plan to Acquire Commercial Icebreaker ‘Aiviq’, Mike Schuler, Accessed Sep 24 https://gcaptain.com/coast-guard-reveals-more-on-plan-to-acquire-commercial-icebreaker-aiviq/0/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20United%20States%20is%20an%20Arctic%…

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