Sarah Paine

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Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S. Naval War College for twenty-four years.

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war 13

Britain alone in Europe needed no large standing army, because a competent navy meant no army could ever reach its shores.
Maritime powers are the exception and continental powers the rule, and the whole difference is whether a country can defend itself at sea.

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China 9

Russia and China are ringed by the most dysfunctional places on the planet because their own security paradigm manufactures failing states.
The Belt and Road cannot beat the sea, because the land route is not only dearer but requires controlling the most unstable places on earth end to end.

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Russia 6

Russia and China are ringed by the most dysfunctional places on the planet because their own security paradigm manufactures failing states.
The continental playbook is to take your neighbours one at a time — destabilise the rising, ingest the failing, wait to pounce — and that is Putin's game.

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