Bruce Jones conducts us on a voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases-from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York.
All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. 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 serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy.
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