20,000 DRONES UNDER THE SEA

摘要

More than century ago, Jules Verne en-visioned what an individual might do if able to operate uncontested in the underwater domain. Captain Nemo, the iconic antihero in Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, harnessed his wealth and engineering genius to build the ultimate disruptive machine of his time, the submarine Nautilus. Today, the undersea domain is an active arena of competition, but nonstate actors do not play a significant role. That almost certainly will change in the next decade, and the United States is not prepared for the threat this new reality will present.