ABSTRACT
For the student of strategic studies an examination of seapower is the first and arguably most important step in achieving a present-day understanding of how a country can best employ military force to further its national security goals. This is because naval forces, unlike land and air forces-but perhaps similar to present and future space capabilities-are inextricably linked to the predominant phenomenon of our age: globalization. “Seapower,” notes the preeminent 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
