Thanos Kalamidas - Geopolitics

The geopolitics of the sea. The history of the human race has never truly been written in the dust; it has been etched in the salt spray. Five centuries before the common era, as the shadow of the Persian Empire stretched across the Aegean, the Athenian general Themistocles realized a truth that remains the fundamental gravity of our modern world: "He who commands the sea, commands all." He understood that the land is a fortress, but the sea is a lever.