The North American continent is separated from Europe by 3,000 and from Asia by 4,000 miles of open sea. These expanses guarantee it a degree of immunity from external interference enjoyed by no other region of the world. . . . Two great oceans, a tranquil relationship with Canada, and a containable problem from the states to the south give the United States a sense of basic isolation and security. It is also a country which is almost completely self-reliant; faced with a loss of all external supply, the USA would come through. . . . The oceanic factors retain, even in the nuclear age, the determining importance in the making of American strategy that they have had since the founding of the republic. The seas still protect America from invasion.
Eric L Harry Arclight Epub
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