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How Trump’s bold ‘Finland Model’ strategy is actually reviving America’s military fleet

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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 the Arctic, directing the Pentagon to use it as a model for rebuilding additional classes of American ships.

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The White House has given that strategy a name: the “Finland Model.”

Under this new policy, a foreign shipbuilder may build two ships at its parent yard overseas — but only if it simultaneously invests in or takes control of an American shipyard, hires and trains American workers, licenses its shipbuilding........

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