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Quote from: Nick Harbud on May 12, 2024, 05:29:42 PMGood job the Spartans never read Mahan.
Quote from: Mark G on May 12, 2024, 12:47:17 PMI tend to think the interesting thing is that it's one of the few occasions where the land power defeats the sea power.
Usually it's the ability to keep trading and controlling the trade routes that leads to the long term victor.
If you can build a strong enough fleet to achieve parity or to meaningfully contest those routes - as Rome managed - then that's the other way. But being gifted a fleet, that works too.
Neither is easy, or common, but one or the other is absolutely necessary