Maritime Supremacy Quotes
Military men tend to rely so much on military history that they are almost always fighting the last war. Soon air power would supplant sea power as the critical factor. Then nuclear power, and then nuclear weapons became too severe for actual use and yet wars still continued with no consensus as to that will be in the future.
Nantucket was the center of the New England whaling fleet which at the time plied the Earth’s oceans and influenced non Western People the world over. It was a type of cultural imperialism although the whalers sized or claimed anyone’s land or controlled any nation’s trade.
In the first year of WWI, the British Fleet kept the German Fleet bottled up in port. As a result, the British had a very successful sea embargo against the Germans who rarely challenged the British fleet even though they had some major, powerful, capital ships. See {642234}. Meanwhile, the German ships were in no position to harass much less destroy Allied (French, Russian or English) shipping.
