Undersea War: The Battle to Control the Cables and Pipelines That Connect Our World

How sabotage and disorder threaten the fragile network of undersea cables and pipelines that makes modern life possible—and how it may already be drawing the world into an all-out underwater war.

The world depends on a tangle of underwater tubes on the ocean floor. Every day undersea cables transmit 99 percent of the world’s data, while intercontinental pipelines convey two-thirds of the world’s oil and gas. They do their jobs so reliably that few would guess that “the cloud” is actually und...