sea power

Example Sentences

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But for Green, Tokyo set the conflict in motion with a more fundamental strategic error: its decision to be primarily a land power instead of a sea power.

From Washington Post

Boarding ships on the high seas is a perfectly legal if little-used tool available to any sea power as part of the collective effort to protect the oceans’ threatened fish stocks.

From Seattle Times

A convoy would require significant air, land and sea power, he says, and would be politically complicated.

From BBC

The difference in temperature between the air and the sea powers storms.

From New York Times

Stavridis might have sounded the alarm in another nonfiction book, an extension of his two professional memoirs and his authoritative history of sea power.

From Los Angeles Times