Another hundred submarines are ordered toward an eventual goal of roughly one thousand in service. The scale makes this a force-structure choice rather than a routine purchase. A fleet that large is intended to make submarines a persistent global constraint on enemy movement. The order shows the destination of the earlier destroyer-versus-submarine production sequence.
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A thousand-submarine fleet goal
Another hundred-submarine order reveals a campaign force-structure goal of roughly one thousand boats for global sea denial.