The Underwater War Nobody's Talking About
95% of all international internet traffic — every email, financial transaction, and military communication crossing the ocean — runs through undersea cables that are almost entirely unguarded. Russia and China figured this out. And they're using it.
- Why dragging an anchor across a cable is legal under international maritime law — and why that's exactly the point
- A Swedish submarine commander's assessment from this week's NATO meeting: "We're not at peace, but we're not at war"
- How the U.S. did this first in 1971 — Operation Ivy Bells — and why our Cold War underwater surveillance…
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