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| During the past 30 years, the United States suffered the same type of ‘strategic over-extension" that exhausted the British Empire and contributed to the end of its naval mastery |
| 2024-06-10 |
| [RealClearDefense] Nearly fifty years ago, historian Paul Kennedy wrote a book about the evolution of British naval power titled The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976), which reached back to the Elizabethan age through England’s wars with the Dutch, the struggles against Spain and France, a renewed struggle against France, the establishment of Pax Britannica, and its long decline starting with the end of the First World War and continuing through World War II and the Cold War. It is a book that holds lessons and warnings for American naval power, which in relative terms may be in the process of a similar decline. Kennedy’s book combined history with geopolitics. It included an entire chapter on the geopolitical writings and theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American naval officer and evangelist of sea power, and Halford Mackinder, the British geographer and statesman whose “Heartland” concept foresaw that Britain and other sea powers would be challenged in the future by continental-sized land powers. Kennedy recognized that Mahan and Mackinder, though often viewed as presenting clashing geopolitical theories, actually agreed on some fundamental geopolitical issues, including the supreme value of sea power. Mackinder worried that geography, the industrial revolution and other factors presented the opportunity for a continental-sized state to transform land power hegemony into dominant sea power. Remarkably, Mackinder in 1904 suggested that a more politically organized and technologically advanced China, because of its lengthy “oceanic frontage,” could become a great Eurasian power whose population and resources could be used to strengthen its sea power. That is precisely what has happened in the 21st century. |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #3 During the past 30 years The Democrat reign. Known phenomena. "The Bathtub Curve is a diagram model that represents the failure rate of an asset over time. It is a graph that resembles the cross-section of a bathtub, with steep sides and a flat bottom. The curve is divided into three main regions: the early life, the useful life, and the end-of-life period. Early Life: The early life of an asset is characterized by a high failure rate, as the asset is still new and has not yet reached its optimal performance. This period is often referred to as the “infant mortality” stage. Useful Life: The useful life of an asset is the period where the failure rate is relatively low, and the asset is operating at its optimal performance. This is the longest period of the bathtub curve, where the asset is providing the most value to the organization. End-of-Life: The end-of-life period is the final stage of the bathtub curve, where the failure rate increases sharply. This is due to the asset and its parts reaching the end of their designed useful life. During this period, the asset is no longer operating at its optimal performance, and failures become more frequent and unpredictable. Extending the Bathtub Curve: Businesses can choose to extend the bathtub curve by seeking maintenance services from a Third Party Maintenance provider. This can help to “sweat” the assets for as long as possible, maximizing the value derived and allowing for budget to be collated over a longer period of time for eventual hardware procurement." Who will be the maintenance partner? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-10 08:47 |
| #2 When the Wall came down, it was time to demobilize. Instead the globalists in the Swamp wanted to play geopolitics using the resources and treasury of the American people (to exhaustion). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-10 07:01 |
| #1 To the best of my knowledge: the Brits didn't practice affirmative action. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-10 02:55 |