"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." (attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen, R-Ill) As most folks know, I am incredibly cynical about the US armed forces as an effective fighting platform but the submarine force is one of the few...

America has 1.5 icebreaker left and the rest of the world has more. The Royal Navy is the only competition with America in this race to the bottom with icebreaker loss of capacity.. Royal Navy’s only icebreaker out of action [at a vital point in time, the Falklands...