
Without Icebreakers, Arctic Infrastructure Won’t Matter.Enhancing Industrial Development in the Russian Arctic: The Northern Latitudinal Passage.Underneath the Ice: Undersea Cables, the Arctic Circle, and International Security.Infrastructure in the Arctic: The Arctic Institute Infrastructure Series.The Arctic Institute’s 2022 series on Infrastructure in the Arctic investigates infrastructure as a critical point of analysis for considering human impacts and needs in the Arctic, especially in its role as a mediator, or as an interface, between politics, government, people and the natural environment. The Arctic Institute Infrastructure Series 2022 Infrastructure is a critical way for humans to engage with the natural environment in the Arctic region, as it facilitates access, connection, inhabitation, and productivity. And in 2003, the Navy flew nine dolphins to an Iraqi port on the Persian Gulf to identify mines.On 19 February 2022, elements of the Royal Netherlands Marines prepare their landing crafts for a new mission in harsh Arctic waters. Navy dolphins named Garth, John, Slan, Tinker and Toad were stationed in Cam Ranh Bay and worked to prevent enemy swimmers from attacking an ammunition pier, according to MIT Technology Review. One of the first uses of defensive dolphins was by the U.S. (The Navy's program was declassified in the early 1990s, though its website still reminds people not to believe the rumors reinforced in the popular 1973 sci-fi thriller The Day of the Dolphin - in which dolphins are trained as offensive weapons.) It operates out of San Diego, where it trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to "detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea," according to the program's webpage.

established the Navy's Marine Mammal Program in 1959.
