Sarah Paine

If you win there, it'll open up a menu of more promising locations, all the while you're attriting your enemy's forces.

And also if you're doing it right, you're relieving pressure on the main front for Russia, which is doing the heavy lifting.

The strategic effects, if you can do this successfully,

is you're going to control resources for yourself, deny them for people you don't like, and this will help put time on your side.

You're strengthening your alliance system because you're essential to each other's survival as you coordinate things, and you're dividing your enemy's attentions among yours.

multiple theaters overextending them.

So you start by trying to contain the problem.

And as things go on, you try to roll it back and then you go for regime change.

So you're producing cumulative effects from these sequential operations.

So that's how it works.

Churchill, the great wit, talked about the hassles of dealing with allies, right?

These are high-stakes discussions.

They don't always go pleasantly.

But his idea is there's only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that's fighting without them, because they'll be toast.

You need these complementary capabilities, different locations, and coordinating it to gang up on your continental problem.

Also, if you stick with it,

you can help establish precedence laws, institutions that'll hold the peace after the war.

So that's his take.

All right, so I've given you a big exposition on maritime solutions to continental problems, which are in a global war, which is blockade and then countering their commerce rating, peripheral operations, massive production, and then joint and combined operations.

So that was then.