In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Marietje Schaake examines how the murkiness of war gets murkier as companies with unchecked power enter the fray.
In the months after Russia invaded Ukraine and destroyed much of the country’s telecom infrastructure, Elon Musk offered twenty thousand Starlink satellite internet terminals to facilitate internet connections for Ukrainians. These SpaceX terminals did not just enable communications between citizens or allow people to reach news websites; they were also critical for military operations, such as navigating drones and launching artillery. Ronan Farrow has called Musk “a private citizen with a private company who had become the arbiter of the outcome of this war.”
