Hello everyone, welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast. I'm your host James Rogers, and every week I bring you two brand new original episodes on military history, everything from Napoleonic battles through to the War on Terror.

But once a week I like to delve into the History Archive and pull out an episode that I know

you're going to absolutely love.

This one is with Andrew Lambert. He's written the history of

Sea Power States about the tools and the methods that they use to control and

exert influence across the high seas around the world.

From the Athenians to the British, he discusses with Dan the way in which states become

sea powers, and he also offers insight into whether sea powers can exist in the same way that they used to

and maybe they talk a little bit just a little bit about how America and China may interact just a little differently with the sea in the future.

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helps us get out there to everyone who loves history. But now here is Andrew

Lambert on Seap Power States. And thank you so much to come in the podcast. This is a huge honor. You've been

an absolute inspiration to me for years, the greatest naval historian working in the English language.

And it feels like this book has been a long time coming.

This is the biggest possible canvas, really, isn't it for someone who loves maritime history history? It is and yes it has been a long time coming.

Back in 1987 I got married and my wife and I took her honeymoon in Venice and in some ways this book was part of that.

We went to Venice, neither of us had been before and we just wandered around.

It was late November and the light was fabulous and it dawns on you

gradually and increasingly more obviously as you walk around that this city is

not like any other city and it's not like any other city because it's a maritime city because it's a

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