1. It became a significant regional sea power, with political and trade relations with China and Japan.

2. Sea Basing is one of three warfighting concepts, or pillars, basic to the the Navy’s capstone concept Sea Power 21 (the others are Sea Strike and Sea Shield)

3. ‘Unlawful Belligerents are never entitled to the status and protection accorded members of national armed forces.’ ‘But naval power can never, by itself, win wars except where either island states, or ones dependent on sea power for survival, are the Belligerents, or the conflict itself is for control of an island.’

4. Appealing Appealing = pleasing / begging, but not compelling? Appealing for witnesses Appealing from their fathers Appealing love messages Appealing to Appealing to bathos Appealing to be evacuated Appealing to his better nature Appealing to reason Appealing to the tradition of Venice as a sea power Appealing to what you perceive to be Appealing …