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Eighty Years Ago Today: Private 'Pinto' Matyola, Killed in Action.

What a Second Trump Administration Might Mean for Icebreakers

Finnish Newspaper: ICE Pact MOU Expected Next Week

End-of-October update

The Last Days of Corporal Matyola, Part 2: On the Way to the Front, October 1944

Life in Finland: Back to School Edition

U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Update

ICE Pact Update

Does the Icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot Meet U.S. Coast Guard Standards?

Le Commandant Charcot's Classification

Charcot's Summer: Operation Tugaalik, the Northwest Passage, and the Transpolar Sea Route

ICYMI: Healy Returns to Seattle Following Fire

Hanwha and Philly Shipyard: The Icebreaking Connection

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly from the Commandant of the Coast Guard's Testimony to the Homeland Security Committee.

Introducing the ICE Pact

It's Not Just Icebreakers- the Coast Guard Has No Shipbuilding Plan.

The 'Silicon Valley' of Icebreaking

May 2024 Update to CRS Polar Security Cutter (PSC) Program Report

Finland's Icebreaking Season Ends

Yes, the U.S. Coast Guard Can Build Icebreakers in Foreign Shipyards

A Successful Commercial Icebreaker Program: Le Commandant Charcot

Life in Finland: Eurovision

The Other Billion Dollar Icebreaker Program

Life in Finland: Holidays and Flag Days

USCG's Polar Icebreaker Program: If You Want It Bad, You Get It Bad.

USCG Polar Security Cutter Program: Additional Delays and Higher Costs Projected

Finding My Namesake

UPDATE: GPS Interference Escalates in the Baltic

Life in Finland: Celebrating Vappu (May Day)

GPS Interference Escalates in the Baltic

Meanwhile, near the South Pole...

Reporting from a Historical Road Trip

Keel laid for Finland's First Multi-Mission Corvette

March 2024 Update to Polar Security Cutter Report Highlights Shortage of Workers, Cost Overruns, Continued Delays

Finland's Icebreakers

Admiral Caudle on the Importance of Arctic Presence

Life in Finland Part 1: Free-range Children.

Dispersal: When all of your bases are within enemy missile range.

Four decades, countless studies, one icebreaker built.

The Price of Independence

How Many Icebreakers Does the U.S. Coast Guard Need? Reviewing the Requirements.

Finland's Chief of Defense: 2% of GDP is not enough.

A Quick Note about Icebreakers

A View from Sixty Degrees North

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