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Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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Okay, so go with other subs. Don’t go with this stupid idea that we can defend our coastline with missiles and drones.
And 8 subs that might not ever make it to Australia defend a coastline of 25.000km against the biggest navy in the world? With over half of it(and the important parts) are to shallow for nuclear subs to operate in?
Very possibly without US support because the orange got a wire transfer by Xi? Or another "cheque didn't clear"?
And no, they won't be able to limit the chinese navy go the south/east chinese sea - which are sea areas which again are hard for subs to operate in, especially hunt surface targets. And which are,by all means, very likely to be very very well guarded against subs via various installations. I would bet the chinese have something like SOSUS in place there - it's their home turf after all that has far less ingress channels as the GIUK Gap.
So... tbh: While I don't follow the conclusions of the author nuclear subs are still a bad idea.
The subs aren’t for defending the Australian coastline they’re to contain China to the South China Sea.
Which is stupid anyway because it’s a very shallow sea and subs are ineffective there. But that’s the strategy chosen by the US.
The subs are for defending Australia. Subs have been part of our naval doctrine since long before we were ever worried of China.
Likewise they don’t purely operate in one fixed location.
The coastline missiles is OPs articles suggestion.