id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 33445 Thursfield, James R. (James Richard) Naval Warfare .txt text/plain 40139 1652 63 warfare will turn upon the command of the sea; a "Fleet in Being" will before their sea communications are severed by the defending naval force as war is essentially the conflict of armed force, the primary object of But sea power, that is, the advantage which a nation at war naval force is engaged each belligerent seeks to secure the command of the main fleets of the enemy into ports which are inaccessible to naval the enemy's available naval forces--as was practically the case after way to attain those objects was to destroy the naval forces of the enemy of naval warfare, the command of the sea. the command of the sea, and having no sufficient naval force wherewithal had no command of any sea because we were not at war with any naval "command of the sea," "control of maritime communications," "the fleet ./cache/33445.txt ./txt/33445.txt