Coast Guard Commandant Says U.S. Falling Far Behind Russia in Arctic
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Read a detailed article from the DOD BUZZ by Bryant Jordan:
Read a detailed article from the DOD BUZZ by Bryant Jordan:
NOAA IMAGE: RUSSIAN ICEBREAKER
The U.S. Coast Guard has only one Icebreaker less than 40 years old and only two operational with a third legally "in commission but basically being cannibalized for parts to keep the other older vessel running. Meanwhile Russia is militarizing the High Arctic, exploring for oil and claiming an expanded exclusive Arctic economic zone extending clear to the North Pole. In comparison to our two ice breakers the Bear cruises about its Arctic domain in 27 very serviceable ice breakers, some larger than the one depicted above. China which has no Arctic coast, is conducting research in areas considered an undersea extension of our outer continental shelf and eligible for an extended OCS or EEZ claim by the United States. Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has described out naval/ coast guard Arctic presence as that practically of a bystander.
Beneath the Arctic it is believed about 13 percent of the world’s oil and nearly 30 percent of its natural gas is deposited. Probably on the seabed is about a trillion dollars’ worth of minerals, according to Zukunft . Coast Guard cited NOAA and other sources indicates that an area about twice the size of California would be considered America’s extended continental shelf under the U.N. sea convention,which has not signed by the U.S.. A more detailed description of the Commandant's recent public observations may be found at : http://www.dodbuzz.com/2015/04/14/coast-guard-commandant-says-u-s-falling-far-behind-russia-in-arctic/
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