America’s Military Trails Russia and China in Race for the Melting Arctic

U.S. is competing with a partnership between the two countries but has fewer icebreakers and ports, and less experience

DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska—On patrol in the Bering Sea last fall, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball spotted seven Chinese and Russian vessels steaming through the frigid waters in a double line near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.