Nuclear submarines crucial for U.S. defense and in short supply

The USS Oklahoma City returns to U.S. Naval Base in Guam in 2021. Image taken by MC3 Naomi Johnson, USN and retrieved from the Washington Post.

In the US navy, a potentially lethal problem is that US submarines might be too few to keep global peace during today’s multifront assault on geopolitical rationality. CAPT Jerry Hendrix, USN and senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, wrote in American Affairs that the US nuclear submarine fleet was 140 boats at its Cold War high, when everywhere Soviet submarines turned, they “found themselves being monitored and tracked” by US submarines.

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