Cold War Anti-Submarine Warfare

This path-breaking and detailed analysis of the evolution of Cold War anti-submarine warfare (ASW) could not be more timely.  The past 35 years have seen this incredibly complex warfare area often take a back seat to other military and naval concerns, even in the U.S. Navy.   Those days are gone, with the rise of new naval powers and the belated rebirth of US Navy capabilities and competencies. Few analysts have a greater understanding of the complexities of integrating naval policy, strategy, operations,  tactics and technology than Norman Friedman.  Here he has applied his prodigious skills and knowledge to bring together classic treatments of the field with newly available de-classified materials. From Josef Stalin’s interwar submarine building program through the searing experiences of World War II and the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Strategy of the 1980s,  Norman brilliantly tells the story of the evolution of submarine warfare and its anti-submarine counters, while also weaving together the efforts of numerous other players, especially the Royal Navy. —Captain Peter M. Swartz, U.S. Navy (Retired), maritime strategist As someone who was an ASW officer during this time, this book is amazing in both its scope and depth. There’s not a lot available in print on ASW, and Dr. Friedman has filled that gap with a book that covers both the history of the Cold War and the science of ASW in remarkable detail and clarity. —Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Red Pheonix, Vortex, and Cauldron  

Norman Friedman is a prominent defense analyst and historian specializing in the intersection between policy, strategy, and technology, mainly in a naval context. He has published more than forty books. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Commodore Dudley W. Knox medal by the Naval Historical Foundation, the Samuel Eliot Morrison award by the Naval Order of the United States, the Westminster Prize awarded by the Royal United Service Institute, and the Anderson Medal of the British Society for Nautical Research. He has twice received the John Lyman Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History. He lives in New York City.