Strategy Before Clausewitz by Beatrice Heuser

Author:Beatrice Heuser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

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Command of the Sea

The origins of a strategic concept

In 1609, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius noted that ‘because the sea is fluid and ever changing, it cannot be possessed.’1 This statement has lost nothing of its plausibility. How then could anyone ever argue that a state could aspire to ‘command of the sea’ or to ‘rule the oceans’? This chapter seeks to explore the origins of a concept which was always an overstatement of ambitions, to the point that it is difficult to understand how it ever came into being.

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