Zukunft.

This is coolbert:

From the Internet web site "We Are The Mighty" an article from over two years ago an aspect of naval warfare in the arctic I had never thought about.

An icebreaker a warship? An icebreaker?

"Coast Guard commandant warns of cruise missile-equipped Russian icebreakers"

"Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft has one very clear message: The country needs more icebreakers."

SURFACE naval warfare in the arctic a possible? It is so if you have icebreakers. 

Russia their icebreaker fleet forty-one vessels. 

AND NOW SOME RUSSIAN VESSELS EQUIPPED WITH CRUISE MISSILES?

The USA has: “'one-and-a-half” operable icebreakers . . . the heavy icebreaker Polar Star and the medium icebreaker Healy, which are in the Coast Guard’s fleet."

POLAR STAR "ARMED" WITH TWO FIFTY-CALIBER MACHINE GUNS AND NOTHING FURTHER!

Icebreakers and presumably any merchant vessels accompanying an icebreaker into arctic waters capable of carrying containerized cruise missiles of the Lora or Club-K variety.

We are going back to the old days of the armed merchantman? A commercial sea-going vessel in time of war equipped with a fighting capability. Stranger things have occurred. Technology makes this all very possible.

Mr. President. We must prevent an icebreaker gap!!

coolbert.