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PREVIEW: #PRC: Conversation with Professor James Holmes of the Naval War College re the PLANavy antisubmarine warfare capability to block the threat of the USN submarine fleet -- the Attack Boats and the Ohio Class SSGNs. More later on the war with PRC.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #PRC: Conversation with Professor James Holmes of the Naval War College re the PLANavy antisubmarine warfare capability to block the threat of the USN submarine fleet -- the Attack Boats and the Ohio Class SSGNs. More later on the war with PRC.

1951 USS Saint Paul off Korea.

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This is John Bachelor. Conversation with Professor Jim Holmes of the US Navy War College

0:35.0

about China's capabilities in the war between the People's Republic of China and the United States in the future maybe.

0:44.5

The capabilities once upon a time did not include first-rate anti-submarine warfare.

0:51.4

My understanding is our submarine fleet, the attack boat fleet, and especially the

0:56.4

ISSTNs, the converted Ohio class to containing several hundred cruise missiles, Tomahawks. That is the best weapon

1:06.3

against the Chinese predators. However, can they be found? What are the

1:11.0

vulnerabilities of the SSG ads and Jim here speaks to that fact

1:15.6

China developing anticipating confronting provoking a predatory state

1:21.9

unpredictable yeah I think that I think a predatory state unpredictable.

1:23.0

Yeah, I think that's probably still true.

1:26.0

I think it's probably less true than it was at the time that you mentioned.

1:30.0

China's applied itself to this problem, not only in terms of trading at

1:35.0

trading as personnel to detect and hunt submarines but also but also

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