Mapping, Measuring, Controlling: The Reinvention of the Maritime Domain

By SLt Isaac Robinson

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With due regard to technological evolution, geostrategy, and climate change, the author contemplates the historical trajectory of sea power theory, law, and its future.

A 15 minute read.

“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll!Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;Man marks the earth with ruin – his control.Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain” – Lord Byron. 1Byron, Lord. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. The navies of today, equipped with missiles, radar, and nuclear propulsion, would appear rather alien compared with the wooden ships of the Early Modern period. Despite these technological revolutions, maritime theorists such as Alfred T Mahan and Julian S Corbett have argued that the strategic challenges of naval warfare recurs across all eras from the War of S…

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