Tag Archives: sea-power

The US, UK and France are the only countries with significant blue water naval capabilities and the US and Britain are sea powers (thalassocracies). China is a former sea power and is again reasserting itself on blue water rather than just in its littoral zone.This is of utmost importance geostrategically owing to the transport of oil by sea. The powers that control the shipping routes control this militarily and industrially vital resources, as well as logistics in general. Logistics is...

This is an interesting analysis from the POV of globalization, the global economy, geopolitics, geostrategy and political economy.  I am not endorsing the analysis itself, although it is plausible and makes many good points such as the geopolitical conflict between sea-power or thalassocracy, and land-power or tellurocracy.  While the specifics are interesting, the method of analysis is much more significant. The chief reason I am posting it is to show how developing an entire...