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Witnesses warn of 'shadow fleet' risk to undersea cables and pipelines
Summary
Members and witnesses told the subcommittee that undersea cables and pipelines are an acute hybrid-warfare vulnerability; they recommended NATO operations, intelligence sharing, and steps to track and impose costs on vessels suspected of participating in sabotage.
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing singled out undersea infrastructure — fiber-optic cables, subsea pipelines and related maritime assets — as a priority weakness in Europe and the transatlantic system.
Representative Amo asked witnesses how sabotage of undersea infrastructure undermines European security. Laura Cooper responded that Russia is “trying to probe potential weaknesses in the Western alliance,” noting that undersea…
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