Effective and sustainable anti-submarine warfare is an enduring problem absolutely unconstrained to the NATO hemisphere.
Operational and tactical initiative rests with the submarine for as long as surface fleets choose to ignore this core, and enabling, warfare discipline.
Paper innovation, poor resourcing, and rationalising away Red Team victories will see a Navy come unstuck in potentially the most spectacular fashion possible.
Galvanising political support for a problem unseen is undoubtedly difficult. Institutional leadership is needed to make the case for mission and materiel.
The efficiency truism of ‘less is more’ simply does not apply to ASW.
For more, please visit the link – http://cimsec.org/putting-back-together-european-undersea-warfare-21st-century/26776
