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.
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