To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers

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From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” ( The Wall Street Journal ) and “penetrating historical and political study” ( Nature ) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the best-selling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography . For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nin…