Changing the Guard | Seapower to Superpower
This episode marks the transfer of power midway through WWII from the Royal Navy to the US Navy and the growth of two unique 20th-century weapons of war: the submarine and the aircraft carrier. But before that happened, the Japanese seriously challenged Britain and America's domination of the great commons of the sea.
England's Royal Navy preserved its empire and gave it military dominance of the world for more than 350 years. In the 20th century, that dominance would pass from Britain to America and eventually, from sea to space. The English language owes its success as the world language to this fundamental military reality -- whoever controls the great commons of the sea and space dominates the world.
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