Operation Medusa attacks the interstellar communications system in the Castle Federation setting. The intended result is to destroy a larger power's ability to coordinate its war effort. The modern comparison is the simultaneous loss of satellites, communications cables, and telephone masts. A force dependent on those connections would have to rebuild communications before it could operate normally. The fictional attack makes the supporting network a strategic target even while many enemy ships remain intact.
Chapter · 39:47-44:36
Operation Medusa targets the network that holds a force together
Destroying a pervasive communications network can disable coordination across a force whose ships still survive.