In a previous article in The American Spectator, I asked: “Are we at the end of American maritime hegemony?” The article noted the concern expressed by two naval experts that our diminished shipbuilding capacity was endangering our maritime supremacy. I noted that in his much-overlooked book Britain and the British Seas, the great geopolitical thinker Sir Halford Mackinder wrote that “the unity of the ocean is the simple physical fact underlying the dominant value of sea-power in the modern globe-wide world.”
