Sea power

While the world struggles to interpret this wave of American military actions, let me note that they come from all the world's major oceans. The cruise missile attack on the Syrian air force came from the Mediterranean, an arm of the Atlantic. The US military in Afghanistan, where the "MOAB" bomb was used against Islamic State, is supplied from the Indian Ocean via Pakistan. And those carriers now headed to the Korean peninsula to deter a Kim Jong Nuke test, are coming from the Pacific. America inherited hegemony over the world's oceans from Britain, as any Russian geopolitical theorist could tell you, and it hasn't relinquished that hegemony yet.