Russia has prioritized the Arctic as a region of supreme economic and military importance. Is the United States giving enough attention to the militarization of the Arctic Circle? CSIS's Heather Conley describes Russia's archipelago of military installations in the Arctic. Icebreakers and the Arctic Power Play A revived Iowa class battleship can be used as an ice breaker and a force projection ship. See below Fit the Iowa-Class Battleships with Nuclear Propul... The US Coast Guard is seeking to equip icebreaker vessels operating near the Arctic Ocean with cruise missiles for the first time as Washington hopes to gain a leg up in the “Cold War” brewing in the world’s coldest waters. Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft confirmed the service was looking for new icebreakers capable of storing and firing heavy weapons last week, the Washington Times reports. ‘Operation Deep Freeze’: US Icebreaker Heads for Antarctica to...
The great strength of American capitalism is also its great weakness, namely, its extremely high weapons productivity. A number of factors have produced increases in productivity, like, the mechanization of the production process that got under way in England as early as the 18th century. In the early 20th century, then, American industrialists made a contribution in the form of automatiion. ..Amor Patriae