NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority

Allied navies are still counting hulls. The contest at sea is now about who sees, decides, and acts first.Earlier this month, Western officials disclosed that American, British, and Norwegian forces had tracked and confronted Russian deep-sea units near Svalbard this spring as they rehearsed a method for disabling undersea cables. The Russian vessels were stopped before they finished the sabotage and left the area. The confrontation matters less than how it was won. The Allies saw the activity i

Source: The Cipher Brief