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American Military News by Kyle Perisic February 06, 2020 

A top admiral in the U.S. Navy warned on Tuesday that U.S. ships docked at ports on the Atlantic are no longer safe from foreign enemy attacks.

The three-star helming the Navy’s 2nd Fleet, Vice Adm. Andrew “Woody” Lewis, said that places that were once safe are no longer so due to increased submarine activity from Russia and China, the Washington Examiner reported.

“The homeland is not a sanctuary,” Lewis warned at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Our ships can no longer expect to operate in a safe haven off the east coast or merely cross the Atlantic unhindered to operate in another location.”

“Our new reality is that when our sailors toss lines over and set sail, they can expect to be operating in a contested space once they leave Norfolk,” he said. “We are seeing an ever-increasing number of Russian submarines deploy in the Atlantic. And these submarines are more capable than ever, deploying for longer periods of time with more lethal weapons systems.”

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Admiral Warns America's East Coast Is No Longer A "Safe Haven" Thanks To Russian Subs

Increased Russian sub activity means that the Navy no longer views sailing off the East Coast or across the Atlantic to be "uncontested" movements.
By Joseph TrevithickFebruary 4, 2020

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A senior U.S. Navy officer says that his service no longer considers the East Coast of the United States as an "uncontested" area or an automatic "safe haven" for its ships and submarines. This is a product of steadily increased Russian submarine activity in the Atlantic Ocean, including the deployment of more advanced and quieter types that can better evade detection.

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Andrew "Woody" Lewis made these comments at a gathering the U.S. Naval Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank jointly hosted on Feb. 4, 2020. Lewis is the commander of the Navy's 2nd Fleet, which the service reactivated in 2018 specifically to address the surge in Russia's submarine operations in the Atlantic. This fleet, headquartered at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads in Virginia, reached full operational capability in December 2019.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32087/admiral-warns-americas-east-coast-is-no-longer-a-safe-haven-thanks-to-russian-subs