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14 minutes, 31 seconds

NATO’s Massive Shipbuilding Campaign

By Eric Wertheim,
19 May 26

Ed. The author, looking beyond the United States Navy, provides a survey of NATO’s current ambitious shipbuilding projects. Originally published in the USNI’s Proceedings, May 2026. A 15 minute read.

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Age of Sail, Blockade, Campaigns, Coastal Forces, Colonialism, Dockyards & Ports, Early Modern, Economics, Energy, Environment, Europe, Geostrategy, Globalisation, Iran, Law, Learning From The Past, Littoral, Maritime Strategy, Maritime Trade, Middle East, Naval History, Naval Warfare, Oil & Gas, Persian Gulf, Portugal, Sea Power, Seapower, Strategy, Supply Chains, Trade Interdiction and Protection
9 minutes, 29 seconds

Portugal in the Persian Gulf: Maritime Power and Strategic Continuity

By Capt Manuel Amaral Mota (rtd),
14 May 26

Ed. In the Sixteenth century, Portgual was a thalassocracy actively pursuing a strategy of maritime influence and control through the acquisition of strategic oceanic chokepoints – the kind Admiral Sir John Fisher would later describe as “the keys that lock up the world.” A 10 minute read.

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