The document, obtained by The Washington Post, highlights how rapidly conditions are changing.
Ice floes and fog surround the USCGC Healy, a Coast Guard icebreaker, in the Arctic Ocean on July 29, 2017. By Dan Lamothe Dan Lamothe Reporter covering the Pentagon and the U.S. military Email Bio Follow April 22 at 11:03 AM The Coast Guard’s new strategy for the Arctic calls for upgrading ships, aircraft and unmanned systems there, an effort to make sure the United States is “projecting sovereignty” into an increasingly contested region, the service’s top officer said.
The 48-page document is being released amid concerns in Washington about actions by both China and Russia in the Arctic. It comes as the Defense Department, at the direction of Congress, prepares its own new Arctic strategy that is due to be provided to lawmakers in June. The Coast Guard, as part of the Department of Homeland Security, is unlikely to have the primary role if open conflict ever broke out in the Arctic. But the service highlights in its new strategy a perceived need to “retool existing concepts of operation to maximize the impact of more capable assets,” presumably from the Defense Department.
The strategy commits to holding the line against “competitors” who do not respect “international order.”
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