Dr Sidharth Kaushal

According to Sidharth Kaushal, a sea power research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, the likes of Vladimir Putin can use subsea sabotage to target his enemies abroad. “Deniable damage to undersea infrastructure can be part of a wider campaign by Russia to impose costs for Western support to Ukraine” says Kaushal.

India and China are competing for influence in a critical area of the Indian ocean—the Bay of Bengal—with nuclear submarines, military bases and a naval build-up. Here’s why. RUSI's Dr Sidharth Kaushal joins to provides analysis.

Dr Sidharth Kaushal, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence and security thinktank, says undersea cables are vital to the global economy and are therefore of clear interest to any state wanting to cause trouble. “If you look at the amount of global data that goes through these cables, the ramifications of sustained damage are quite significant,” he says.