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why didn't you develop an anti-communist position?

I know, you are going to invoke the Obama defense. It wasn't me you were calling a pig while you were trying to put more lipstick on the DoD acquisition trough.

Now, since we are grading phonies, tell me, genius, what mathematical algorithm and what technical innovation revolutionized anti-submarine warfare and made possible us tactical dominance basically driving the Soviet Submarine force from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Since my experience in anti-Communist warfare consisted primarily of pointing rifles and the “sharp end of the stick” at Communist foot soldiers and their officers and assisting them on their journey to the Happy Hunting Ground as soon and as often as possible, my expertise in anti-submarine warfare is about as limited as your experience in logic and spelling, but, perhaps a few words to the wise... or in this case, to you.

A number of technological breakthroughs make our underwater warfare dominance possible. They included advanced acoustic surveillance techniques, on-board both surface and submerged ships, listening buoys, both fixed and free-floating, the sinusoidal equations that make the towed arrays viable even when not entirely straight in their deployment, the Greenland-Iceland-UK line, the acoustic emissions of our nuclear power plants, particularly the cooling pumps were so much lower than the Sov boats, the work of Drs Sheppard, Leventhal and Kowalsky, our Neuman-based computers that made US acoustic analysis so much more advanced their their, the sound-deadining tiles applied to the submarine hulls, the understanding of the critical speeds of the turning of Sov subs due to their sail design, and of course the pre-deployment information available from the UW taps at Murmansk and in the Sea of Okhotsk, and other items you are not cleared for.

More than anything else, however, it was the failure of the Soviet economic model to produce the financial foundation upon which to build a quality submarine force and the failure of Marxism-Leninism in general to produce a people educated enough and willing enough to crew such submarines on a career basis.

Of course the Soviet “Port Call” in Jacksonville late in the 20th Century and the defection-based intelligence learned from that was critically important, too.

Was there something else you wanted instruction in, Captain (HA!)