Hello everyone welcome back to warfare I'm your host James Rogers and in this episode

we're jumping back even further in history than we ever have before back to the 1880s why

well we have award-winning historian and my good friend Dr. Louis Haylewood from the University of Plymouth.

Louis is seapower mad and we've jumped back to the glory days of the Royal Navy, a fleet at its Zenith to explore how the British government

wanted to use naval supremacy to bring peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world.

We talk about how this idea was even touted as a kind of police force

as part of the League of Nations to uphold its rules and laws and how it

ultimately failed to materialize after the First World War.

What I'm going to say is that if you thought Brexit and these ideas of global Britain were difficult to achieve,

then try and unite the world through a greater Britain and military

seapower. This is a fascinating episode so here is Louis Halewood on

British Sea Power. C power. Hi Louis,

thanks for coming on to warfare. How you doing today?

Yes, not too bad.

A pleasure to be here.

Thank you for inviting me on James. Not a problem at all pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me on James.

Not a problem at all. Where are you speaking to us from in the world?

I'm speaking to you from Plymouth, southwest of the UK.

And what is Plymouth famous for? It is famous for many things. Probably most. of course we're supposed to have

for many things probably most famous for the Mayflower

and we of course we're supposed to have our 400 year anniversary

commemoration of that last year but unfortunately due to the pandemic, that's been pushed back, but we're now going to go for 401.

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