Anton La Guardia

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Number crunch: why Britons ignore immigrant drop · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

For now though, Commander Clinton Enrich, the captain of the Annapolis, thinks American subs can still keep China at bay.

As we sail out of Apra Harbour in Guam, the wartime shipwrecks that lie below are a reminder of the island's strategic importance.

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Living underwater and working eight hour shifts for months on end, Captain Emmerich's crew of about a hundred and fifty sailors live in intimately close quarters, taking turns on sleeping bunks, for example.

With nuclear fuel that lasts three decades or more, American submarines generate their own air and fresh water.

The main limit on the duration of their patrols is food.

The Annapolis gets underway not just with a full load of weapons, but with a full load of bananas hanging from the pipework and jars of peanut butter jammed between seats.

Sailors on the Annapolis have to tell superiors whether they want to receive bad news from home while underway, assuming information reaches the boat.

The crew did not hear the result of this year's Super Bowl until days after the event.

All this makes for an unusual environment, not least for Lieutenant Maya Solis, the sole woman on board.

Women have been stationed on attack boats in Guam only since last year.

But the change has posed no real problems.

Still, she's had to contend with men's habits.

In years to come, Lieutenant Salis and her colleagues will be stretched increasingly thin.

The American Navy needs two Virginia class submarines every year to replace older Los Angeles class boats like the Annapolis.

And the commitment to supply Australia with submarines, and the requirement rises to 2.33 attack boats a year.

At present, America is managing little more than one.

Making everything worse is a maintenance backlog that keeps a third of American attack boats idle.

Underwater, as in other domains, drones could take up some of the tasks currently performed by submarines.

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