"...“CDR Salamander” points out in his Substack blog that we depend on the transmission of information–civilian, military, and diplomatic–and transmitting that information depends on undersea cables.
- Last year, Colin Wall and Pierre Morcos published a study, “Invisible and Vital: Undersea Cables and Transatlantic Security,” pointing out that submarine cables “carry over 95 percent of international data...
- There are approximately more than 400 active cables worldwide covering 1.3 million kilometers (half a million miles).”...
...Cutting the major cables would be a relatively inexpensive attack that could do as much damage as a nuclear weapon."
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