Farewell to the Royal Navy, The End of British Maritime Power

By Dr Mark Bailey

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With his trademark dissident perspective, the author tackles what he describes as the long-term decline of European and British maritime power, and compares the present situation in the Middle East with the financial consequences of the outbreak of war in 1914. A 15 minute read.

Vale Classi Regiae, Finis Potentiae Maritimae Britannicae There were just five seapowers in history. Minoan Crete, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and the last was Britain. Seapower had a good run in the British Isles, 1546 to 2026. On 3 March 2026 the UK proved it had no capability to deploy even one warship to protect its critical national sovereign interests. The ignorant, especially the modern, narrative-driven media, will blame the RN for this. It’s as easy to blame the navalists, who are merely guilty of inability to think critically, repeating the same mistakes while expecting dif…

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