Cold War Anti-Submarine Warfare

In this authoritative history, Norman Friedman reveals how the West triumphed in the Cold War’s global anti-submarine warfare campaign, drawing on newly declassified records and Soviet sources.Packed with insights on Cold War ships, submarines, aircraft, and strategy, this book offers vital lessons for today’s naval challenges in an increasingly contested maritime world. As enmity between China and Russia and the West deepens, and as the Chinese navy grows, the United States finds itself more and more in the situation it faced during the Cold War.Again, the United States depends on access to the world, and again a possible enemy is building a massive navy intended to cut off the U.S., which may well have to fight for the seas.In doing so, it is helpful to look back to the closest analogy-the struggle against the Soviet navy.For the first time, this book brings together enough of the declassified record-and enough of what the Russians published during their brief period of openness-to t