Anti-shipping warfare "unlikely" in Pacific Ocean: US Strategy Page

Naval warfare has now shifted to land targets and intelligence missions, which would make any trade operations happening in the Pacific unlikely targets of US submarines. (Photo Courtesy of the US Navy)

An article entitled "US Navy Rethinks the Silent Service" from the US-based military website Strategy Page stated that the anti-shipping campaign once launched by US submarines against the Imperial Japanese Navy is unlikely to happen again in any future Pacific Ocean naval battles that might involve China and the United States.
According to the website, Unlike the Soviet Union during the Cold War, China needs thousands of ships a year to handle exports and imports, making their merchant fleet, like the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II, vulnerable to US attack.
The submarines of the US during the Pacific War managed to destroy 54.7% of the Japanese shipping fleets, but China today is not only a military, but also a economic power in the world.


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