Jamison writes: Like a piece of stained glass held up to the light, the Mahanian concept of 'sea power' is many things at once. It's a specific argument or polemic for one point in history; it's also an analysis of purely naval strategy.

READ Paul Edgar of @ClementsCenter on "A Most Ancient Statecraft: The King Idrimi Statue Inscription" abt the earliest complete bio of a political figure that's been discovered, & what it tells us abt abiding tensions btwn political agency and circumstance.