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Recent Examples of sea power
To military experts, Trump’s fleet would be hopelessly unsuited to strategic and tactical threats that are already faced by American sea power and likely to become more dangerous by the time the vessels could be deployed.
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Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
The United States has deployed three naval vessels—including two aircraft carriers—capable of operating F-35 stealth fighter jets across the Western Pacific this week amid China's rapidly growing sea power and expanding maritime activity in the region.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
This partnership is a geopolitical and technical win for both sides, and yet another sign that uncrewed maritime systems are becoming central to modern sea power.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
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Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
The United States has deployed three naval vessels—including two aircraft carriers—capable of operating F-35 stealth fighter jets across the Western Pacific this week amid China's rapidly growing sea power and expanding maritime activity in the region.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
This partnership is a geopolitical and technical win for both sides, and yet another sign that uncrewed maritime systems are becoming central to modern sea power.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sea power
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Jackson, the author of a new book, Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and The Birth of American Empire, explains how Trump’s plan relies on the template set by the Spanish-American War, through which the U.S. rose as a world power and ended Spanish rule in the Western Hemisphere.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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At the time of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, $1 traded for 32,000 rials.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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However, the bill gave Lincoln great power by suspending this in order to imprison those who were viewed as threats to the Union.—
Mikayla Bunnell,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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When neither great power embraces free trade, the rest of the world will simply go elsewhere.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2026
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When the media fails to provide the meta-view, when policymakers recycle failed economic tools, and when adversaries understand American history better than Americans do, the nation becomes reactive rather than responsive, and a reactive superpower is a vulnerable one.—
Carol L. Harris,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
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Whether Saturday night’s team figure skating men’s short program exposed cracks in Ilia Malinin’s invincibility or whether the sport’s self-proclaimed Quad God was simply saving his superpowers for later in the Games remains to be seen.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Sea power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20power. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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