“It’s getting to where other players can now build undersea warfare systems, and they can be effective enough. They’re not as good as U.S. systems, but they’re capable,” said Bryan Clark, a former U.S. Navy nuclear submariner and the author of a recent report on undersea warfare for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "New capabilities, powered by improved computer processing, cheaper computer processing, are making it so that the barrier to do undersea warfare is much lower. If we’re not smart about how we reshape or evolve our undersea forces, we can fall in to a situation where we fail to evolve, but the threat does.”
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