In article , steamer wrote:
--What it means is the American fleet had no submarines
involved in the exercise or they would have spotted it. 'Set a thief to
catch a thief' and all that..

And/or that we detected it long before it got anywhere near... but aren't
about the let the PRC know how good our detection capabilities are.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.