Coast Guard Deploying More Ships To Pacific, Arctic

Coast Guard Deploying More Ships To Pacific, Arctic
Coast Guard Deploying More Ships To Pacific, Arctic

The Coast Guard ships are “not ballistic missile shooters,” Adm. Karl Schultz said, “but you know not every place that you need a ship needs to have that BMD capability.” What his ships can do is “free up shooters to be the key places they need to be.”

Should Coasties Or Navy Build New Icebreaker?

Should Coasties Or Navy Build New Icebreaker?
Should Coasties Or Navy Build New Icebreaker?

WASHINGTON: After a decade of dithering, the White House and Congress have finally come close to agreeing that America must build a new icebreaker. One congressional subcommittee, the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, has actually come up with the $1 billion needed to build it in less than a decade. But the money wasn’t put in…

Where Are The Icebreakers?!

Where Are The Icebreakers?!
Where Are The Icebreakers?!

We’ve got something here for Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Angus King and Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft to read before they speak Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on “National Security Challenges and Icebreaking Operations in the Arctic.” Scott Truver, known to most serious students of Navy shipbuilding, argues the case for icebreakers.…