The Cipher Brief Open Source Report for Friday, Oct 8, 2021

Topping today’s Open-Source Report: The US military says a nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Connecticut collided with an ‘object’ on Saturday while submerged in the South China Sea. Reuters reports that 15 sailors suffering minor injuries. The navy has not provided details on what the ‘object’ may have been. This somewhat unsettling news comes as The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that a US special operations forces and a contingent of Marines have been secretly rotating into Taiwan to train the island’s military.