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I'm John Bachelor.

This is the new John Bachelor show.

My colleague, Captain Jerry Hendricks, is the author, Captain Jerry Hendricks, of a new book.

To provide and maintain a Navy, why naval primacy is America's first-brest strategy. Jerry's now outlined the last 400 years since a philosopher attorney, Grotius, very carefully constructed what we understand

as a free sea, a free ocean, for commerce, for prosperity, for people of the earth to go

rich and happy and watch their

grandchildren prosper. However, there have been caveats in between that are pertinent to

here in the 21st century about operating close to land or near enough to land so that the

issue is what is the territory, what is the claim of the

sea of the territory, and how far out does it go, and what can you do about people who may or may

not challenge your claim? Jerry, what is the cannonball rule that developed in these last 400 years?

Well, that's a great question.

And it's one of the most interesting historical questions, but it has dramatic implications

for us in the world today.

So at the time that Hugo Grotius was making his claim of the Free Sea, there were a number

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