While stealth is a wonderful warfighting strength and the essential characteristic of our submarines, it is not the best way to tell the submarine or ASW story to our shipmates, our fellow warfighters, or the American people. It is time to leave silence in our wake.
Undersea warfare is a team sport, a combined arms effort.
No one community can perform the Navy's undersea warfare role by itself. The combat power of submarines is magnified by the contributions of our teammates. These include Special Operations Forces, undersea surveillance professionals, mine warfare experts, and our anti-submarine warfare partners in the surface line and aviation communities. Submarines are a crown jewel of our nation's arsenal. In response to the crises of instability unleashed by the end of the Cold War, our submarines are in more demand, by more theater commanders, than ever before.