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This month, a national newspaper reduced a major national-security and industrial initiative to a round of golf, a presidential “fixation” and billions in “no-bid” contracts. The New York Times on Aug. 1 published a fake-news caricature of President Donald Trump’s plan to significantly boost America’s Arctic icebreaker fleet. But The Times got the story exactly backward. America’s real problem is that Washington spent decades allowing our Arctic capability and shipbuilding industrial base to atrophy — while our adversaries kept building. And this president has decided to reverse that decline. On Aug. 13, he took the US-Finland icebreaker partnership far beyond…
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