War on the Waves
May 18, 2018 · Books & Arts, Navy, World War II
What today’s navalists can learn from the Allied success at sea in WWII.
Arthur Herman is a historian and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, known for works on military and geopolitical history. He is the author of several bestselling books, including *How the Scots Invented the Modern World* and *Freedom's Forge*. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics spanning history, infrastructure, and naval warfare.
What today’s navalists can learn from the Allied success at sea in WWII.
ON JULY 26, 1956, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, at that time the most vital international waterway in the world. The Middle East, and all of us, still live under the shadow of the fateful events his decision triggered 50 years ago. Even more than the Cold War,…