ABSTRACT
Quiet and ubiquitous, seapower is the military force that is perhaps most fundamental to the enduring security and prosperity of the vast majority of nations. This is because naval forces, unlike land and air forces, are inextricably linked to the predominant phenomenon of our age: globalization. ‘Seapower’, notes the pre-eminent contemporary maritime strategist, Britain’s Geoffrey Till, ‘is at the heart of the globalization process in a way that land and air power are not’.1
