Welp, no need to load the guns then. Just launch inflatable aircraft carriers ad infinitum and lower my fucking taxes.Smitty-48 wrote:You look at how America defeated the Soviets at sea in the Cold War, nary a shot fired, the threat of the Soviet Navy, was neutralized, and by extension, the threat of the entire Soviet war machine, simply by showing constant presence, the ultimate expression of this was SOSUS and the Submarines, the Soviet submarines were the existential threat, but merely by being constantly on the beat, tracking them wherever they went, being right up behind them in the saddle, the Navy rendered the Soviets impotent, if the Soviet submarines could not get the jump on America, the Soviets had no hope of winning a Third World War, by the Navy being ceaselessly up in their baffles, the cops on the beat nipped things in the bud before they ever reached the point of them having to draw their torpedoes and fire.
This is how your rule the waves, not by fighting for them, simply by ruling them with presence, so that things never escalate to the point of a shoot out in the first place.
The deal with the Soviets was the same then as it is now - MAD. No matter how many goofy submarine games we played, the equation was never changed.
