NATO Warns of Undersea Infrastructure Threats After Middle East Escalation

A meeting of representatives from NATO countries and European industry took place at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The topic of the gathering focused on discussing the consequences of events in the Middle East for the security of the energy complex and critically important underwater infrastructure. Energy and Infrastructure as Strategic Vulnerabilities The concern is far from theoretical. Iran has shown the world that every country has its own vulnerable points, and these are not military facilities in the strict sense. They are everything that sustains the economy: the fuel and energy complex and information communications. Pipes and cables resemble blood vessels and nerves in the human body. Cut or compress one of these threads, and the system begins to fail. The problem becomes even more acute because a significant portion of this infrastructure lies on the seabed. Protecting it proves extremely difficult if someone with technical capabilities decides to sever even a single link in this network.