Eleven foreign military vessels from China and Russia patrolled off the Alaska coast last week, prompting a response from U.S. Navy vessels, according to military officials.
A northern fulmar soars past a small island near Buldir Island in the Western Aleutians.
Alaska’s two U.S. senators, both Republicans, issued a joint statement Saturday saying the incident is a reminder of Alaska’s role in national defense and called for expanding the military’s presence in the state. Sullivan said that the U.S. response to similar operations conducted by the Chinese and Russian navies
“In recent years, China has been allowed to participate incredibly in Russia’s largest annual military exercises,” he said. “Each year there’s a little bit more participation, a little bit change in how they do partner and work together militarily. So this maritime effort now is also not surprising.”
“The U.S. Navy right now is not really set up for Arctic waters. Anything that has sea ice — we don’t really have ships that are ice-hardened yet — so the ability of the U.S. Navy to have a surface presence in parts of the Arctic with sea ice is pretty limited. And that’s something that just has to be dealt with at a strategic level. We’ll have to figure out a solution to that some day,” Bouffard said.
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