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Elisabeth Braw The Undersea War

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A gripping account of the hidden battles beneath the world's oceans, where cables and pipelines - the lifelines of the modern world - are under constant threat from states, corporations, and hackers.

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Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 08 Oct 2026

Beneath the oceans, a war is quietly unfolding - a battle over the pipelines and digital cables that carry the oil, gas and data modern life depends on. These invisible networks, stretching across the globe, are vital, and increasingly under threat. We must pay attention, before it's too late.

In The Undersea War, award-winning journalist Elisabeth Braw exposes the frontlines of this hidden conflict. Minute by minute, hour by hour, she recounts incidents with nail-biting suspense: mysterious damage to undersea cables, shadowy ships loitering near pipelines and the growing realization that these vital arteries may be deliberately targeted.

From Arctic ice to tropical seas, ordinary people - from islanders cut off from the digital world to officials confronting suspicious foreign vessels - feel the consequences of a conflict most of the world does not even know exists.

Drawing on deep reporting and exclusive interviews with ship captains and crews, witnesses, policymakers and executives, Braw moves across continents and oceans - from the Arctic waters of Svalbard to the Baltic Sea, from the Matsu Islands off Taiwan to England, Denmark, Tanzania, Indonesia, and beyond - revealing a globe-spanning struggle for control beneath the waves.

Urgent and immersive, The Undersea War is a gripping, international investigation into an invisible conflict that could determine who controls the world's future.

About the Author

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she leads research on threats to the global maritime order. A leading expert on national security, geopolitics and global risk, she has worked in academia, the private sector and journalism, and regularly writes for The Times, Politico and Foreign Policy. She is the author of God's Spies, The Defender's Dilemma and Goodbye, Globalization, which won a gold medal in the 2024 Axiom Business Book Awards. Born in Sweden, she attended university in Germany and holds a Magister Artium in political science and German literature.

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A compelling and revealing look at the new front-line of geopolitical conflict -- Gordon Corera, author of RUSSIANS AMONG US
Illuminating yet unsettling . . . It is rare for a nonfiction book to reveal the urgency and significance of a topic that has been largely ignored until now with such analytical precision and narrative power -- Carlo Masala, author of IF RUSSIA WINS
A masterful and compelling book by one of the most insightful observers of modern strategic competition . . . Timely, authoritative, and highly relevant, The Undersea War is essential reading for policymakers, business leaders, and citizens alike -- General David Petraeus, US Army, retired, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller CONFLICT

Timely, authoritative, and deeply unsettling, The Undersea War illuminates
one of the most consequential - and least understood - security
challenges of our age

-- Emma Sky, author of THE UNRAVELING
Writing with the authority of all her scholarship but with a journalist's eye for drama and suspense, Elisabeth Braw packs a real punch with this analysis. It's a war that is not just undersea. It's a war that is also under-reported and now certainly underway -- Michael Clarke, Former Director General, Royal United Services Institute

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