One of the most vivid lessons of the war in Ukraine is that moving the country’s government operations to the cloud was worthless without a hard-to-jam communications network that kept the country running; that was Starlink, with its network of nearly five thousand satellites. China’s plan for a future conflict with the United States, if it comes to that, is to blind American forces, from our aircraft carrier groups to our nuclear submarines. Even now, China is inserting code into American power and water supply systems, presumably to slow a response if a Taiwan crisis erupts.
