A Newsweek investigation reveals the secret constraints that weaken the U.S. submarine fleet.
The U.S. Navy plans to expand its submarine fleet at a cost of $200 billion, equivalent to the GDP of Ukraine. But as Republicans hotly debate ongoing military aid to Kiev, neither party has questioned the far more costly submarine program—allowing the Navy to conceal a startling fact about America's submarine fleet. The Navy calls its submarines 'the most lethal and capable force.
'Our submarines operate thousands of miles away from the American landmass,' says a second retired Navy officer, currently a War College professor. 'It's a balance...maintaining secure homeports in the United States and the long distances submarines have to travel to deploy to Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
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