A Starlink outage left dozens of unmanned US Navy vessels stranded off the California coast — and exposed the Pentagon's worrying reliance on Elon Musk
THE SO WHAT
A single Starlink outage stranding unmanned Navy vessels is the case study in over-concentrated critical comms—“commercial off-the-shelf” has become “single point of military failure.” If your operations depend on one private network or vendor, you’re not resilient—you’re betting your continuity on their uptime and governance choices.
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