naval supremacy
Maritime military dominance
Naval supremacy is dominant control of the seas, achieved when one nation's fleet can operate freely while denying that freedom to rivals.
The concept shaped empires—Britain's naval supremacy enabled its colonial expansion, while challenges to it triggered arms races and wars.
The treaty guaranteed American naval supremacy in the Pacific.
- sea powerMaritime military strength
- battleshipsHeavily armed naval vessels
- capital shipsLargest military vessels
- destroyersFast armed naval vessels
- aircraft carriersWarships with flight decks
command of the sea · submarines · Age of Sail · wooden walls · ship of the line · frigates · economic warfare · trade routes · chokepoint · freedom of navigation · deterrence · fleet · gunboat diplomacy · blockade · Admiral Nelson · Russo-Japanese War · Spanish Armada · Pearl Harbor attack
- Navyadmiral, battleship, destroyer, aircraft carrier, cruiser
- imperialismempire building, colonization, imperial expansion, British Empire, colonies
- naval affairsadmiralty, fleet command, admiral, fleet admiral, rear admiral
- naval historybattleships, admiral, battleship, navies, admirals
- naval warfarebattleship, destroyer, sea battles, warship, cruiser
- Ancient Naval Warfaregalleys, triremes, ramming, boarding, warships