Future security needs will demand not only knowledge of the maritime domain, but its control. Subs are crucial to these needs.
At the end of a major confrontation, the United States was forced to shift its security strategy dramatically from one in which there was a clearly defined and traditional adversary with well-defined points of conflict and militarily normal objectives and goals, to one where the adversary was non-homogeneous, irregular, widely dispersed, and where the objectives and goals were drastically less well defined. To compound the difficulties, the previous adversary could not be allowed to totallycollapse, and everything that had to be done was with greatly reduced resources.
