Dynamics
When control of the sea is in dispute both sides operate at elevated risk. Once control is obtained, however, it is usually not maintained for a long time. It may be lost from time to time and then regained. In littoral waters, sea control by a stronger fleet can be disputed even if the major part of a weaker fleet is
destroyed
Sayfa 138 - Disputing Sea ControlKitabı okudu
"And Sarah hasn’t just lost control of her own diaphragm, she’s perhaps lost possession of it. It’s usurped by a stone."
Sayfa 67
"Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks. Our hearts are bars of soap that we keep losing hold of; the moment we relax, they drift off and fall in love and get broken, all in the wink of an eye. We’re not in control. So we learn to pretend, all the time, about our jobs and our marriages and our children and everything else. We pretend we’re normal, that we’re reasonably well educated, that we understand “amortization levels” and “inflation rates.”"
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