This old story has come to mind a lot in the last few days.

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth-A4.pdf

Also, "the unwirer".

One of my very few contacts in the ukraine https://twitter.com/olegkutkov
was working on reverse engineering the starlink devices, as well as having
been one of the developers of ubnt's 60Ghz P2P radios.

I imagine that these directional devices are harder to detect and jam. A
common problem is power, starlink eats a lot more than these do.

longer range p2p radios on the existing 5ghz or 2.4 ghz bands would be
easier to "hide" due to the noise of all the other wifi APs.
Iridium is more man portable, micro-lte cells for cellphones also. Meshy
store and forward applications over local areas would often be more useful
than even (in)direct connections to the internet.