The year 2007 was a year when several major powers served notice that U.S. weapons superiority in every field and class wasn’t going to remain an uncontested monopoly.
China continued to out-build the United States in submarines by factors of 10-to-1 or even 14-to-1 per year, largely because good, small and medium-size diesel subs are far cheaper, faster and easier to produce than enormous nuclear-powered ones. But neither Republicans nor Democrats on Capitol Hill gave any serious thought to pushing for a diesel-sub component to the U.S. undersea fleet to balance it and match China in affordable numbers.
[Defense Focus: Year in review -- Part 2]
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