Well in any case it is a very bad move indeed and yes I read about the defence Ministers actions, It’s reported that he was undermining the service from within, which is why he never showed up.

Personally I would have kept the Naken and bought a second (or lease as the case may be). As for NATO asking Denmark to focus on Sealift, that’s ********… An organisation can not ask a government to focus on one area that may or may not be lacking. NATO has no authority to cancel a countries defence no mater who is in the group and what they promise!

Why would a SSBN would need to go to san diego or anywhere near US?

Strategic deterance, why does the USN send their SSBN’s out?

There is no way chines sub would make it to the coast of san diego. They would be detected and neutralized long before that.

What kill a sub full of people during a peacefull voyage? Remember the Chinese would deploy their Sub before any hostilities commenced, thus they can make the US out to be bad guys.

so I (US pacific fleet cmdr) deploy 4 CVNs, 16 DDG, 10 SSNs and 2 wings of F-15E in response.
Your move next

Indian: Ok my SSBN sitting of the coast of San Diego launches it’s birds… Have you not read any Patrick Robinson??? This is a real scenario that has been seriously discussed in closed groups over many years.

If China were to retake Taiwan, the first thing they’d do is deploy an SSBN off the coast of the US then they’d move their forces out on the seaward side of Taiwan and retake her as mentioned above. It’s not really a work of fiction but a very palusable strategy that would minimalise losses to Chinese forces from intervention by the US or any other country for that matter!