How States Become Sea Powers
Warfare
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Goes Mediaeval by History Hit
The british create modern belgium just to keep the french out. We let them have bourbon back because tit's got no harbor. And then we miss the point entirely and let the germans get in. That was one of the real catastrophes of the first world war, failing to hold easily secured territory. The otherthing about sea paris s is that it's hard to impose authoritarian government using a navy.
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