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Risk Beneath the Waves: Safeguarding Subsea Cables for a Secure Global Network

Risk Beneath the Waves: Safeguarding Subsea Cables for a Secure Global Network

The unprecedented dependence on subsea cables in the cyber era significantly raises the stakes of disruption, but they continue to face many old and new risks alike. CSIS examines the regulatory challenges and physical vulnerabilities of the lifelines of the digital age.

Digital Report by Romina Bandura, Erin Murphy, and Thomas Bryja — March 5, 2026

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2014 Global Forecast


After a dozen years of war, the 2008 financial crisis, budgetary contraction inside government, and growing political polarization, U.S. security policy stands at a crossroads as America finds itself lacking a durable political consensus on the nation’s role in the world.

Report by Craig Cohen, Josiane Gabel, Kathleen H. Hicks, Jon Alterman, David Berteau, Ernest Bower, Samuel Brannen, Victor Cha, Heather Conley, Jennifer Cooke, Zack Cooper, Anthony Cordesman, Ralph Cossa, Matthew Goodman, Michael Green, John Hamre, Murray Hiebert, Christopher Johnson, Andrew Kuchins, and Sarah Ladislaw, Robert Lamb, Maren Leed, James Lewis, Haim Malka, Carl Meacham, Scott Miller, Stephen Morrison, Clark Murdock, Aram Nerguizian, Daniel Runde, Sharon Squassoni, Johanna Nesseth Tuttle, Juan Zarate — November 1, 2013

American Strategy and US “Energy Independence”

Changes in energy technology, and in the way oil and gas reserves are estimated, are beginning to raise serious questions about the level of future US dependence on energy imports and how this will affect US strategy. At this point, some answers are highly uncertain. Much depends on uncertain estimates of how new technologies and reserves will be developed over time.

Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — October 21, 2013

Chinese Military Modernization and Force Development

China’s military development has become a key focus of US security policy as well as that of virtually all Asia-Pacific states.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ashley Hess, and Nicholas S. Yarosh — September 30, 2013

Offensive Cyber Capabilities at the Operational Level

At present, the defense policy landscape is replete with arguments, many of which are ultimately based in the lack of a common vision among both elites and within the broader population about the role of the U.S. military in the future.

Report by James A. Lewis and J.D. McCreary and Maren Leed — September 16, 2013

Securing Cyberspace Through Public-Private Partnerships

Though the term “cybersecurity” has only recently penetrated the American psyche, concern among policymakers about the need to better secure cyberspace has been intensifying for nearly two decades.

Report by Rachel Nyswander Thomas — August 19, 2013