
How States Become Sea Powers
Warfare
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The Strategy of a Sea Power
The strategy of a sea power is not what alfrethem sat which as you have a great fleet battle, and that decides things. You use control of the sea to your advantage by having enough naval assets to be superior. And whenever you are superior, you then use whatever army you've got to destroy everybody else's ships. The classic british operation of war is a raid on somebody's dockyard and blowing it up or burning it and sinking their ships. Even crimean war, it's a grand raid to burn the russian dockyard. It's not intended to seize territory. How do you command the black sea whill you torch the russian fleet, blow up that
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