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RE: why
Posted by: kurt ()
Date: February 01, 2001 10:28PM

<HTML>There has not been a war between a power with a lot of subs and a nation with a lot of shipping or a major navy since WWII. So no subs sinking ships.

Also, sub use in war tends to be in total war: sinking merchant ships and so forth. Politics in small \'brushfire\' wars nowadays does not permit this.

Subs have done a lot though. Nuclear deterence relies ever increasingly on subs. By the very nature of the mission of deterence, just because they haven\'t been used doesn\'t mean they weren\'t doing anything useful: their presence deters aggression and attack.

Attack boats, by threatening the other side\'s boomers, adds to the uncertainty, and further deters an aggressor from provacative moves.

Subs have done a lot since WWII, it is just not easily seen.</HTML>

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why tony 02/01/2001 08:10PM
RE: why John Griffiths 02/01/2001 08:46PM
RE: why kurt 02/01/2001 10:28PM
RE: why Lawrence 02/01/2001 11:17PM
RE: why VHeimpel 02/02/2001 10:19AM
RE: why - why not. John Griffiths 02/02/2001 07:58PM
RE: why - why not. Rainer Bruns 02/02/2001 08:40PM
RE: why - why not. MPC 02/02/2001 09:18PM
RE: why - why not. John Griffiths 02/02/2001 11:11PM
Not blaming VHeimpel 02/03/2001 12:25PM
RE: Not blaming John Griffiths 02/03/2001 01:59PM
RE: why - why not. tony 02/03/2001 03:04PM
RE: why - why not - Tony John Griffiths 02/04/2001 01:35PM
RE: why - why not - Tony Steve Roberts 02/14/2001 11:35AM
RE: Maggie Thatcher unhinged???? MPC 02/14/2001 05:47PM
RE: why - why not - belgrano / etc John Griffiths 02/14/2001 07:01PM
RE: why - why not - belgrano / etc Rainer Bruns 02/16/2001 03:45AM
RE: why - why not - belgrano / etc John Griffiths 02/16/2001 09:39PM
RE: why - why not - belgrano / etc Rainer Bruns 02/17/2001 02:52AM
RE: why - why not - belgrano / etc Rainer John Griffiths 02/17/2001 11:58AM


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