2025 was definitively the year of the icebreaker. In an increasingly polarized and hyper-partisan Washington, President Donald Trump’s White House picked up where Joe Biden left off with his strategic trilateral agreement, ICE Pact.
Buoyed by a massive cash injection from Congress — and despite serious tensions in other parts of foreign policy — the administration has carried on the agreement with Finland and Canada to bolster the icebreaker fleets of all three nations, securing a deal to buy four ships from Finland and attracting new entrants into the American maritime industrial base to aid in construction.
[This article is one of many in a series in which Breaking Defense reporters look back on the most significant (and entertaining) news stories of 2025 and…
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