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Originally Posted by SeaQueen
There's also a lot of politics to the submarine industry and there always has been. Anti-Soviet fervor was Adm. Rickover's way of getting Congress to appropriate money for more submarines than frequently even the Chief of Naval Operations wanted. Now a days, people try to play the same game, only they've crossed out "USSR" and replaced it with "PRC" in all their slides. There's also the fact that Electric Boat has what amounts to a government sanctioned monopoly on the submarine business. It's the sacred cow of Connecticut, and predictably, every Congressman from Connecticut says that a submarine is THE ultimate weapon at sea. It's the ONLY thing that can save us from rapid submarine proliferation throughout the developing world.
The truth is, it's not that simple.
Thankfully, the complete lack of fiscal restraint demonstrated by the Republican party in spite of their ideology has managed to put a damper on a lot of this sort of talk, simply because no matter how much you exploit scare tactics to create anti-Chinese paranoia, the money for the submarines you want to build simply isn't there. So... right now... this doesn't fly far.
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It seems, as with most things, that there is a history on this topic that a guy like me (young and stupid) should really study in depth before providing too much commentary.
Of course you're right about the Republicans acting very un-Republican in areas of fiscal responsibility, but I'm not opening
that can of worms!
But seriously, if holding the Commies back isn't top-priority, I don't know what is!
