An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is
conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day
operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as
submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for
movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in
WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the
Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel.
Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed
U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations. This study
shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the
post-war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was
developed by professional anti-submarine officers, and based on the
well-tried combination of defensive and offensive anti-submarine
measures that had stood the press of time since 1917,
notwithstanding considerable technological change. This consistent
and holistic view of anti-submarine warfare has not been understood
by most of the subsequent historians of these anti-submarine
campaigns, and this book provides an essential and new insight into
how Cold War, and indeed modern, anti-submarine warfare is
conducted.
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