{"id":26847,"date":"2017-12-15T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/15\/russias-naval-updates-threaten-undersea-comms-network-says-top-british-military-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:56:42","slug":"russias-naval-updates-threaten-undersea-comms-network-says-top-british-military-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2017\/12\/15\/russias-naval-updates-threaten-undersea-comms-network-says-top-british-military-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s naval updates threaten undersea comms network, says top British military officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LONDON \u2014 Britain\u2019s top military officer has warned that a modernized Russian Navy poses a threat to the undersea fiber-optic cable networks that carry much of the world\u2019s communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, the chief of the Defence Staff, said the vulnerability of the cables to severing by the Russians posed a potentially \u201ccatastrophic\u201c economic threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peach told the audience at the Royal United Services Institute in London, England, on Dec. 14 that the threat posed by a Russian Navy modernized with nuclear and conventional submarines and ships means there is a \u201cnew risk to our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn addition to new ships and submarines, Russia continues to perfect unconventional capabilities and information warfare. Therefore, we must continue to develop our maritime forces with our allies to match Russian fleet modernization,\u201d said Peach, who will give up his job as Britain\u2019s top military commander next year to become chairman of the NATO Military Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plea for greater resources to combat the growing threat comes two weeks after Policy Exchange \u2015 a British right-of-center think tank \u2015 flagged the vulnerability of the undersea cable networks in a report on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\t