Space, the Great Commons | Seapower to Superpower
Naval strategists had concluded that, with the arrival of cheap land transportation, the advantage of seapower would be transferred to a land-based empire. By 1946, that challenger, the USSR, had arrived, and with it, atomic power, missiles, and satellites. Space, the Great Commons explores the war over space between the United States and the Soviet Union and America's final triumph.
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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