Abstract
This work provides historical and contemporary overviews of this critical geopolitical problem, describes the policy actors addressing this in the U.S. and selected other countries, and provides maps and information on many undersea cable work routes. These cables are chokepoints with one dictionary defining chokepoints as “a strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region."
Keywords
Undersea cables, geopolitics, maritime strategy, international finance, military communications, cartography, geography, military science, national security policy, underwater engineering
Date of this Version
12-13-2021
Recommended Citation
Chapman, Bert, "Undersea Cables: The Ultimate Geopolitical Chokepoint" (2021). FORCES Initiative: Strategy, Security, and Social Systems. Paper 1.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/forces/1
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