Maritime Security and Underwater Surveillance Technology: Lessons from the Cold War

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2024-01-24

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The global underwater acoustic surveillance network known as the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) allowed the US to identify Soviet submarines during the Cold War, and its history holds important lessons for the present. Submarines conducting military operations in the world's oceans are now the most active since the end of the Cold War. As undersea competition intensifies in the Indo-Pacific among the US, China, and Russia, acoustic surveillance systems are again gaining relevance. In addition, technological developments such as Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) have the potential to change military strategies dramatically. This article describes the ways that countries are responding to new challenges in the maritime domain. It argues that the experience of the Cold War shows that collaboration across industry, academia, and government, as well as cooperation among the US and its allies and partners, will be essential to tackling today’s rapidly changing strategic undersea environment.

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Mizuho Kajiwara, “Maritime Security and Underwater Surveillance Technology: Lessons from the Cold War,” Indo-Pacific Outlook 1, no. 3 (2024): 1–9.

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University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs

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