Sabotage

Cuts Both Ways: The Geography, Technology and Strategy of Undersea Cable Sabotage in the Pacific

Abstract:

This article builds on the extant literature on undersea cables and information warfare by offering an analytic pathway to explore the operational limitations and strategic logic of attacks on undersea cables. While China possesses a host of capabilities that could be used to support an undersea sabotage campaign, there are also several technical, geographic, and strategic factors constraining its actions. China’s information warfare doctrine demands that its forces seek to obtain information dominance, but cutting cables will degrade both Taiwan’s and the PLA’s ability to operate within the information sphere. In short, cable sabotage cuts both ways.

Published In

Volume 25, Issue 3

Non-State Cyber Power in ONG

ABSTRACT

The revelation of long-standing espionage operations by state actors against private entities over the past decade speaks to an application of cyber capabilities that shifts the focus from direct and ancillary use in high-intensity confrontations to indirect supply- chain attacks and economic warfare. By observing recent cyber-related events within the oil and gas industries, conclusions can be drawn on emerging patterns of attack and the increasing role of non-state actors in geopolitical conflicts proliferated by the growing weight of information as a means of expressing power. This analysis also presents the opportunity to scrutinize future implications of cyber conflict, with respect to both a current and historical context.

Published In

Volume 13, Issue 3

Journal of Information Warfare

The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.

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