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Fairly hard to stop them from having a submarine in their own ports.

Picky, picky, picky. It would be one Hell of a shot to launch a torpedo from a Cuban port and hit a drill stem one mile under water and a hundred or so miles away.

Are you sure you want to endorse that theory?

And, as an afterthought, it would not be hard to keep submarines out of Cuban ports if that is what we decided to do. In 1961 we had them remove missiles from their island and went head to head with the USSR to do it. It is all a matter of political will and courage on the part of leadership. With today's group the courage is lacking.

Picky, picky, picky. It would be one Hell of a shot to launch a torpedo from a Cuban port and hit a drill stem one mile under water and a hundred or so miles away.

Well they supposedly bought four North Korean Sang-O class subs. They also had an old Foxtrot boat, but I think that is out of service. However since the Sang-O class was specifically designed to deliver commando and sabotage teams in shallow water I'm thinking that if they got one of those they wouldn't need to shoot from 100 miles away. Just drive up submerged and drop a mine.

BTW for the record I don't buy into the sabotage deal. Rigs have blown up in the past without the help of sabotage. They will do so again. My comment was that you somehow think that we could keep foreign subs out of the Gulf of Mexico. The Russians operated there during the cold war with the Cubans giving them a lane in. Subs are by their nature very hard to find. Especially when they can hide in Cuban or Mexican territorial waters where we can't even begging to look for them.

And, as an afterthought, it would not be hard to keep submarines out of Cuban ports if that is what we decided to do. In 1961 we had them remove missiles from their island and went head to head with the USSR to do it. It is all a matter of political will and courage on the part of leadership. With today's group the courage is lacking.

Swedish Sub Sinks The USS Ronald Reagan (Video)

Apparently in exercises they can't even keep one from sinking our fleet flagship even when said flagship knew in advance that the sub was out there and that it would be launching an attack. Subs are not easy to find. Especially if they aren't where you expect them to be.