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...