The following is the May 9, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
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Coast Guard Hopes to Have 3 Polar Security Cutters Fielded by 2028
A starboard view of the anchored US Coast Guard icebreaker POLAR STAR (WAGB 10).
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Coast Guard hopes to have its first three heavy icebreakers fielded by 2027 or 2028 to replace the one icebreaker that is increasingly struggling to make it to Antarctica and back each year and to increase U.S. presence in the high latitudes, the commandant said today. Read More
Report: China Can’t Execute Major Amphibious Operations, Direct Assault on Taiwan
Landing craft deploy PLA Marines during Joint Sea 2015 II. Chinese MoD Photo
THE PENTAGON – The Chinese military is reorganizing its land forces, but its moves do not increase its ability to mount a large-scale beach assault across the Taiwan Strait, according to a new Department of Defense report. Read More
Document: Coast Guard Arctic Strategic Outlook
The following is the U.S. Coast Guard’s Arctic Strategic Outlook, released on April 22, 2019. Read More
Report to Congress on Changes in the Arctic
The followings is the March 4, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic:
Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Report to Congress on Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter Program
The following is the Feb. 15, 2019 Congressional Research Report, Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Report to Congress on Changes in the Arctic
The following is the Feb. 7, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Report to Congress on Changes in the Arctic
The following is the Dec. 13, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Coast Guard Commandant Hopeful FY 2019 DHS Budget Will Be Approved With Icebreaker Funding
Members of the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star participate in various activities on the ice about 13 miles from McMurdo Station, Antarctica on Jan. 26, 2018. US Coast Guard Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz is guardedly optimistic his service will get funding for a new Polar Security Cutter in time to start construction in 2019. Read More
Pentagon Balancing Military Needs in the Arctic, Future Infrastructure
Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN-757) during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016. US Navy Photo
U.S. submarines are in the Arctic to deny a bastion to Russia to attack the United States, but the probability of adding surface warships to the region in the near future as another maritime deterrent is slim, a Navy policy official said Tuesday. Read More
