Owen R. Cote

Owen R. Cote Jr. is the associate director of the MIT Security Studies Program and Co-Editor of the journal International Security. He has written extensively on submarines and anti-submarine warfare, including as the author of The Third Battle: The US Navy’s Silent Cold War Struggle With Soviet Submarines (Naval War College Press, Newport, RI: 2003).

Articles by Owen R. Cote

submarine leaving Hawaii

One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China

By Owen R. Cote | Analysis

The USS Alabama, a US ballistic submarine. Credit: US Navy via Wikimedia Commons.

Invisible nuclear-armed submarines, or transparent oceans? Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?

By Owen R. Cote | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons