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

"For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for dominance. 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 the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly-painted 40-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits by it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in bright, closely observed prose, To Rule the Waves author Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases of this era-from the vast container ports o

ISBN:	9781982127251
Publisher:	Scribner
Imprint:	Scribner
Published date:	14 Sep 2021
DEWEY:	387.5
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	522g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	36mm

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