How NATO Would Wage a Fourth Battle of the Atlantic Against Russia - 19FortyFive

How NATO Would Wage a Fourth Battle of the Atlantic Against Russia - 19FortyFive
"Over at Business Insider, Christopher Woody has the story of how NATO navies are working to

keep the sea lanes connecting North America with Europe open in times of war. 

These routes amount to connective tissue binding together the North Atlantic community. 

Cut them through surface, undersea, or air warfare and you dismember the alliance. 

In other words, you isolate forces in Europe from U.S. and Canadian reinforcements and simplify the task of defeating the detachment of NATO forces in Europe.

Past foes found this logic compelling; so do present-day rivals.
...Now Russia is following the familiar pattern, dispatching nuclear-powered attack submarines to menace sea traffic. 

In time Russia’s fellow denizen of the wretched hive of scum and villainy, Communist China, could help it make trouble...Read all.