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

Braw, Elisabeth

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ISBN 10 : 1541706099 ISBN 13 : 9781541706095

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2026

Synopsis

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.

“Excellent… Braw’s writing sparkles.” ―Financial Times

The world depends on a tangle of underwater tubes on the ocean floor. Every day undersea cables transmit nearly all 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 underwater, or that global economic stability relies on pipelines on the seafloor. But as award-winning security expert Elisabeth Braw reveals, an invisible battle over those cables and pipelines is ramping up.

Undersea War tells the story of the underwater infrastructure that supports everyday life. In 2022, after decades of seeming undersea harmony, two pipelines in the Baltic Sea mysteriously exploded. Within months, the cutting of the data links between Taiwan’s Matsu Islands’ and the world along with the the subsequent destruction of additional Baltic cables and a pipeline signaled that the harmony in the ocean depths was over. Superpowers are now racing to protect themselves as the seabed itself becomes a battlefield.

Blending engrossing historical narrative with acute strategic analysis, Undersea War shows that the next battle for global supremacy may unfold on the ocean floor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. A columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe, she also writes regularly for the Financial Times and The Times (London). She is the author of the award-winning Goodbye, Globalization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541706099
• ISBN 13: 9781541706095
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible