China, Russia Expected to Attack Vital Undersea Data Cables

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PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) — Risk of Russia and China-backed attacks on undersea cables carrying international internet traffic is likely to rise amid a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea and around Taiwan.

Submarine cables account for 99% of the world’s intercontinental data traffic and have been affected by incidents with suspected state support over the past 18 months.

A U.S. cybersecurity company said that while genuine accidents remained likely to cause most undersea cable disruption, the two deliberate anchor-dragging incidents pointed to increased malicious activity from Russia and China.

“Campaigns attributed to Russia in the North Atlantic-Baltic region and China in the western Pacific are likely to increase in frequency as tensions rise,” the company said.

It added that a successful attack on multiple cables – which would cause prolonged disruption – would have to occur in deeper waters and would “very likely involve state-sponsored threat actors, due to the difficulty of accessing these sites.”

Such an operation would probably take place before an outright conflict.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense stories ending the week from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.

Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEFING – the PDB:    

NATIONAL SECURITY

Congressional efforts to move the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter jet program forward will cause a delay in the Air Force’s F-47 program, the White House says, making official that the administration is prioritizing the Air Force’s next jet over the Navy’s capability. 

DOD will soon allow local commanders to buy drones and authorize troops to fly them in training exercises, skipping steps that previously required higher-level approval

HOMELAND SECURITY

Army veteran and U.S.-born citizen who was detained for 3 days during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm said he was sprayed with tear gas before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him. Warns it could happen to anyone.

House-passed version of the NDAA military policy bill makes DOD involvement in various domestic and border law enforcement activities more permanent

The 3rd-countries where Trump is deporting migrants.

Several attendees at last week’s White House African summit say they aren’t interested in accepting violent criminal deportees called by ‘barbaric’ by Trump, from the U.S.

A now-former 21-year-old Army soldier has pleaded guilty to a hacking and extortion/ransom scheme in which he stole data from 10 telecommunications companies, then threatened to leak the data.

DEFENSE POLITICS

House passes Trump plan to cut $9 billion from foreign aid, public broadcasting, sending it to President Trump to sign into law.

Senate version of the 2026 defense policy bill—National Defense Authorization Act—would allow the Air Force and Space Force to spend billions of dollars more than the services had sought for next year

Air Force’s helicopter fleet gets a major shakeup in the 2026 budget, highlighted by a decision to modify HH-60W helicopters to ferry VIPs around Washington.

US POWER OVERSEAS

Navy’s Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group entered the South China Sea on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Chinese reconnaissance flights as Taiwan conducts annual counter-invasion drills

Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe (SSN 763) and a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine conducted Submarine Exercise 25-1 (SUBEX) in the Pacific Ocean.

Army hit an at-sea target with a Standard Missile 6 fired from its Typhon missile system as part of the Talisman Sabre 2025 exercise in Australia

For the first time, Singapore’s military, and sophisticated U.S. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft have deployed to Australia as part of the large-scale multinational, Talisman Sabre exercise

Navy will construct new $300 million barracks at Guam Air Force base, after a government watchdog reported on subpar living conditions

IRAN THREAT/MIDDLE EAST

Israeli strike hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people and injuring 10 others including the parish priest, who was close to the late Pope Francis.

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions.

CHINA THREAT

Nuclear submarine holdup is a gift to China. “AUKUS”: Australia, the UK and the U.S. pact, is vital to U.S. national security and keeping China from dominating the Indo-Pacific. So why is the Trump administration, intently focused on China threat, calling its future into question? 

RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR

New Ukrainian government will race to expand domestic arms production to meet half the country’s weapons needs within six months as it tries to push back Russia’s invasion.

U.S. diverts Patriot systems in production pipeline for Switzerland to Ukraine.

UK warns that Russian forces seized more than 550 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory last month, “an area greater than the size of Greater Manchester,” as Moscow intensifies pressure along the frontline.

NATO’s top commander said he is under guidance to move as quickly as possible in transferring more Patriot air and missile defense systems to Ukraine.

NORTH KOREA THREAT

In February, South Korea’s navy took a significant step, inaugurating a task fleet command at its strategic Jeju naval base

SPACE THREAT

Space Force’s new guidelines for how it will allocate finite launch infrastructure and range resources states that national security missions will take precedence over commercial missions when capacity constraints emerge

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

France has handed over its two remaining military bases in Senegal, leaving the onetime colonial power with no permanent presence in either West or Central Africa

First rendering showing the new fighter demonstrator being built in the UK as part of the Tempest next-generation air combat program bears a notable resemblance to the Lockheed Martin F-35

Drone builder General Atomics will develop and build a variant of its robot wingman Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) for European militaries

US MILITARY

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For decades, the M240 medium machine gun has proven its worth, but now the Army is looking for something new

Navy is planning for its next-generation destroyer, currently known as the DDG(X), to feature directed-energy weapons and more missiles

Marine Corps will field rifle-mounted smart scopes to help shoot down moving targets, such as drones, in the coming months

Marine Corps 3-star general is in line to lead the Naval Academy for the first time in its 180-year history

L3Harris unveils ‘wolf pack’ munitions with eyes on Marine Corps. The pair of aerial munitions are designed to be fired as swarms from a variety of platforms and provide kinetic effects, employ electronic warfare capabilities, or act as decoys for enemy fires. 

END of PDB

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Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for state and federal office, taught political science, wrote for the editorial board of a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad. To read more go to: paulcrespo.com.

1 Comment
    Nunya

    I am sure they have cables also. A tit for tat would be in order. Their lawlessness should have consequences.

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