“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.” MenHas BeensMatterPastSinCitiesIgnoranceDestructionSupremeShipsGuiltyInstanceWhat MattersCaptainsCrewWickednessWrecksSinking Book:Plato's Statesman Source: Plato's Statesman
“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.” WayMadeStillsWarUseTodayPastFightingDifficultCommonSeaMethodCommon SenseShipsPermanentNavyInfrastructureSea Power Author:Nicholas Rodger