In the dark depths of the Pacific, US submarines patrol with an eye fixed firmly on China

Writing in the US Naval Institute’s journal Proceedings, Mike Sweeney, a PhD student at George Mason University, notes a numbers and scope problem for US Navy subs.

He says that US submarine technology remains superior to China’s, but it “may simply lack sufficient numbers” in any conflict with China.

“An old rule-of-thumb holds that for every vessel operating, two others are required — one preparing for deployment and a second standing down from recent operations,” Sweeney wrote in Proceedings.

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