Reply #9: Um...throughout our entire history, actually.

[Kelly Rupert]

1. We won the revolutionary war in large part because Britain was not able to adequately supply and reinforce its army. This, combined with the several-month delay in communications, severely handicapped British strategy.

2. Due to the Atlantic, we were afforded a massive advantage in our dealings with Latin America. We were able to quickly project power throughout the hemisphere, in a way that European powers (save Britain) were not. It was as a result of this that the United States and Britain were able to force all other powers out of the hemisphere.

3. US naval security afforded us the ability to pick and choose our conflicts involving Europe up until the cold war. When Europe was embroiled in war, we were able to expand our influence, always confident that retaliation would be virtually impossible.

4. The Atlantic allowed us to sit out the majority of WWI; it was only when Germany raised the possibility of opening a Mexican-American front of fighting that the American public shifted to support of the war.

5. Our holdings in the Pacific allowed us to pursue war with Japan while allowing no threat to the American mainland (and our eventual naval supremacy ground the Japanese economy to a halt), as Allied Atlantic control enabled us to open fronts at will against Germany, while preventing the Germans from doing the same.