U.S. Looks to Buy Icebreaker to Help Patrol Arctic

“The U.S. government is looking to buy an icebreaker from a private energy services company to bolster its presence in the waters around Alaska,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The planned purchase reflects a growing concern over delays in the U.S. government’s effort to replace and augment its two aging polar icebreakers with new ones to patrol increasingly contested waters in the Arctic and break a path for supplies to Antarctica. It also comes amid Pentagon worries over the capacity of a shrinking industrial base to meet the military’s needs.”