The End of the Submarine as We Know it?

Although largely unnamed by Clark, he, like most other U.S. naval analysts, singles out the Chinese navy as the principle threat and most likely future adversary of the U.S. naval forces underseas. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments – filled with the acolytes of Andy Marshall, who very early on in his career recognized the military potential of the emerging Asian superpower and fused it with his obsession of a revolution in military affairs (RMA) – has particularly become a mouthpiece for those seeing U.S. military superiority eroded by the new Asian military juggernaut.

Most senior U.S. defense officials agree with the threatening nature of the Chinese military buildup. “What I’m seeing [now] in foreign modernization, again, particularly China’s, is a suite of capabilities that are intended, clearly to me, at least, to defeat the American way of doing power projection, [the] American way of warfare when we fight in an expeditionary manner far from the United States,” emphasizes Frank Kendall, U.S. undersecretary of defense for acquisition in a recent interview.

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