Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Can U.S. Submarines Defeat China?

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Can U.S. Submarines Defeat China?

The United States possesses 48 nuclear-powered attack submarines, but inventory is not combat power. Maintenance, deployment cycles, competing missions, Pacific geography, finite weapons, rearmament, and attrition progressively discount the force that could actually be sustained against China. This analysis asks how much usable submarine combat power remains after those constraints are recognized.

By Haig Hovaness