ABSTRACT
The author tries to bring up to date Alfred T. Mahan's analysis of the foundations of sea power, something that itself had been produced at the request of the great man's publishers. He revised a triangular analysis of the roles of navies on the seminal work of Ken Booth. The 'Medium Regional Force Projection Navies' able in Michael Morris's words 'to project force into the adjoining ocean basin'. The author thought that the US Navy would not maintain quite the level of supremacy it had in 1990 and the Soviet, Chinese and Japanese navies would approach it more closely as global navies as would a collective European navy. Japan is a difficult navy to classify. In Europe the navies have either moved up, or in East Germany's and Yugoslavia's case, disappeared. Bulgaria remains here. Along the North African littoral, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt also remain, although Algeria appears to be going up in the world with its ambitious LHD plans.
