"The US nuclear triad includes 450 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic missiles deliverable by 76 Air Force B-52s and 20 B-2s, and 18 Navy Ohio-class submarines carrying ballistic or cruise missiles.
"The Air Force plans to replace the B-52 fleet with a long-range strike platform or family of systems, which Air Force leaders have said would center on a new long-range, penetrating bomber, a global strike system, a long-range standoff weapon, and an enabler system. * * * What aircraft or missiles the Air Force will ultimately select and fund for future long-range strike missions still is under discussion, he [Air Force Gen C Robert “Bob” Kehler who leads U.S. Strategic Command] added.
"Russia is unlikely to resume supporting such a high rate of Chinese submarine acquisition [of Kilos], as Beijing is a potential strategic rival to Moscow – and since the Russian Navy’s own sub force is steadily declining to long-term levels of just a dozen each nuclear attack, nuclear ballistic-missile and diesel-attack boats. ‘There are powerful incentives for Russia to keep China just below its future submarine capabilities,’ [Richard] Fisher noted.
"PLAN’s subs are optimized for attacking surface targets such as US aircraft carriers. Lacking the most sophisticated sensors and weapons, they’re far less useful for hunting US submarines. ‘China has very limited (Anti-Submarine Warfare) capabilities and US submarines are the most difficult ASW target in the world,’ [MIT analyst Own] Cote [Jr] wrote. ‘Thus, China would have difficulty preventing US submarines from operating in its shallow coastal waters,’ Cote continued.
(2) China, US See Guam as Militarily Central. Pacific Daily News (Guam), Oct 21, 2011 (available now) http://www.guampdn.com/article/2 ... -militarily-central
("In recent years, China has routinely dispatched submarines near Guam to show the U.S. Navy it cannot regard the island as a sanctuary, according to numerous accounts in the U.S. and foreign press, as well as defense journals")
My comment: I do not know if the quotation is true or not.
Note: 美国海军作战部部长乔纳森.格林纳特上将 Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations (replacing Gary Roughead on Sept 23, 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_Naval_Operations
(typically the highest ranking officer on active-duty in the U.S. Navy unless the Chairman and/or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are naval officers; an administrative position based in the Pentagon)
(b) Loa Iok-sin, Tibetan Diplomat Disputes Ma’s Peace Deal Claims. Taipei Times, Oct 21, 2011 (available now) http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 11/10/21/2003516303
(Tibetan delegation signed 17-point peace agreement at Beijing in 1951 without authorization or the official seal from Lhasa)