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USNI News Search for: Home » Aviation » New Arctic Strategy Calls for Regular Presence as a Way to Compete With Russia, China New Arctic Strategy Calls for Regular Presence as a Way to Compete With Russia, China January 5, 2021 7:46 PM U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Europe 21.1, Marine Forces Europe and Africa, conduct a safety of use memorandum (SOUM) on an assault amphibious vehicle in preparation for Exercise Reindeer II, Reindeer I, and Joint Viking in Setermoen, Norway, Nov. 19, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo The Navy and Marine Corps released a new Arctic strategy today, calling to extend their new focus on day-to-day competition with Russia and China into the Arctic as it becomes more navigable and therefore more congested in the coming decades. ....
Can Canada keep up with a global icebreaker boom? Russia, China and the United States are racing to build big ships meant to slice through ice in an Arctic region rich in natural resources and new shipping lanes. Canada s backyard is at stake. December 17, 2020 CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent in seen in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence escorting a cargo ship through a path of ice in February 2020 (Courtesy of Canadian Coast Guard) Joe Clark wasn’t the first Canadian politician to promise the world’s most powerful icebreaker, and he won’t be the last. Clark, as foreign minister in 1985, staked his expensive pledge to build a ship that could slice through ice as thick as 2.5 m on the premise that the federal government was “not about to conclude that Canada cannot afford the Arctic.” That ship never got built. Today, as the climate warms, foreign icebreakers are exploring the Arctic for natural resources and asserting themselves in a region Canadians have long ....