Gentlemen
 

Just a quick survey for votes and comments.

Have We as gentle advanced enlightened beings
of a much more highly advanced nature
(Im choking on that)

Lets just go with.

Gentlemen & Ladies.
Have we seen Our last "global submarine conflict"
in history?

feel free to submit speculations and comments.
have a vote while your here.

My own Vote
 

I voted yes because History repeats itself as it is a learning aid for
monkeys.
(look mummy the monkeys are funny!)

I am not one who beleives that we will never see another

An educated people in an advanced industrial democracy swayed to extremism by the persuasive powers of manufactured consent.

Can still happen in my opinion.
is their one among us who thinks that cant happen in this day and age.?

Just my opinion
MM

I hate to say it but I think there are more wars to come and chances are at least one of them will be a more traditional nation v nation or coalition v coalition stoush, subs will therefore get involved, hopefully not with nuclear weapons, but almost certainly against shipping and commerce.

Oh yes, there will be sub wars in the future. I think a large portion of the future navies will be submarine, including carriers (think Sen Toku, only larger). We see a trend towards stealth in today's military tech - take the F-22 as an example.

i also voted yes i think the modern submarines have so much more firepower these days they would be a valuable asset in future wars to come. not to mention they are nuclear capable well some of em are

impossible to say, we don't know what the future has in store for us....but I voted no anyway....

Asimetric warfare is the emerging defense doctrine du jour. Wr have seen excellent examples of this recently in Lebanon and of course Iraq. Submarines are the "cheap" response to aircraft carriers. There are only a few countries capable of carrying out a global campaign against shipping. However, I do see the possibility of mine warfare on a global scale where submarines are used as layers.

Imagine this scenario: Dormant mines laid on the approaches to Norfolk to be activated at a later date by the sound signature of an aircraft carrier. This could be an unatributable attack. I also see the development of a torpedo-mine that will seek its target when activated. It will be interesting to see who else will develop the pulsating torpedo. (Iran has hinted that it has them).

We also have a situation for which there is no historical precedent. The U.S. is the predominant naval power. Except for a handful of tankers it has no merchant fleet. This is an abnormality that leads to interesting strategic scenarios.

We have plenty of reasons for conflict and countries are developing and buying quiet submarines. So I vote, yes. There is a threat of a global submarine campaign.

I don t think we will see it the way we saw it before.
But the oceans are deep. And for a mobile missile platform, depth is a good place to hide.

Merchant hunting? I don t think so... It s so much more efficient with plane or missile. Why should we hunt them?
But I m surprise we haven t saw any commercial sub actually. Large cargo going under water to avoid whatever can occur on surface...

Mush Martin if you mean "global submarine conflict" as part of a world war, then hopefully yes we have seen our last global submarine conflict. But no doubt submarines will be used in smaller conflicts most probably to deliver cruise missiles. Remember, the only time a nuclear submarine has been used to sink another ship was during the Falklands war when HMS Conqueror sunk the Belgrano in 1982, a small conflict between two nations.

Nemo

No
 

I meant global conflict as opposed to large or small continental conflicts.

Ps I love the story of HMS Conqueror. your appealling to my good side.

Lets hope not, but i think if there is it would take months rather than years due to technology, i dont think we will see a submarine war as in WW2....which has to be a good thing.

I sincerely hope there will never be another world conflict. But if there was submarines would play a major part. the U.S. and many European countries still possess excellent ASW capabilites and have extremely powerful and stealthy attack boats. They would be used to attack enemy combatant ships and submarines and eventually merchant shiping. They'd be used to conduct missle attacks on well defended shore instalations.
And new submarine classes like the Virginia class would be used to insert speacial operations teams and do intelligence gathering. Subsmarines are the second most powerful naval threat(excluding ballistic missle subs) after the Aircraft carrier. And it doenst need a dozen ships to defend it.

Yes, but the subs will be easily destroyed, especially in this day and age. Not to say the subs won't get in their licks first, but it won't last.

It's easy to kill subs. They're incredibly fragile. All you have to do is find 'em first. And in the immediate future, with the technology coming on line, that won't be such a difficult proposition.

Tehcnological evolution like most natural systems is reciprocal.

advantage to the other guy next year.

an evolutionary sharpening of the claws.

Hyman Rickover said 40 years ago, that all the surface fleets would be wiped out in 3 to 4 days. That is truer today than it was then.

If there is a Global Submarine Conflict is will likely be between the United States, and the European Union.