America is fighting the Fourth Battle of the Atlantic: Navy admiral warns Russian submarines are waging Cold War-style operations in ‘alarming and confrontational ways’

Friday, June 3, 2016
By Paul Martin

Vice Admiral James Foggo III outlined Russia’s submarine operations, calling them ‘alarming and confrontational’
He warned that Russia’s submarines are waging the ‘Fourth Battle of the Atlantic’
Foggo said the country’s national-security policy is ‘aimed at challenging US and its NATO allies and partners’
Increased Russian submarine presence in the Atlantic are most visible sign of renewed interest in submarine warfare by President Vladimir V Putin

By VALERIE EDWARDS
DAILYMAIL.COM
3 June 2016

The commander of the Navy’s US 6th Fleet has warned that Russian submarines are waging a Cold War-style ‘fourth battle of the Atlantic’.

Vice Admiral James Foggo III outlined Russia’s submarine operations, which he said is probing US anti-submarine networks, in an article for the US Naval Institute’s June issue of Proceedings.

In his article he explained the submarine battles between the Allies and the Germans in World War I, World War II and the Cold War, between the US and the Soviets, and how they compare to Russia’s actions today.

He compared those first, second and third battles to Russia’s current actions ‘prowling the Atlantic’.

Foggo wrote: ‘Once again, an effective, skilled, and technologically advanced Russian submarine force is challenging us. Russian submarines are prowling the Atlantic, testing our defenses, confronting our command of the seas, and preparing the complex underwater battlespace to give them an edge in any future conflict.’

He said that Russia’s current actions and capabilities have ‘increased in alarming and confrontational ways’ as its national-security policy is ‘aimed at challenging the United States and its NATO allies and partners’.

The increased submarine presence are the most visible sign of a renewed interest in submarine warfare by President Vladimir Putin, whose government has spent billions of dollars for new classes of diesel and nuclear-powered attack submarines that are quieter and better armed and operated, according to The New York Times.

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