[Chainmail]

Yawn. Very superficial discussion of naval battles - for no obvious point.

[real saxophonist]

Yawn. Very superficial discussion of naval battles - for no obvious point.

Of course there's a point. Clicks to the blog.

[Tallguy]

The author may have cherry-picked his examples, but I think the main ‘point’ was that ‘lasts’ can be more important historically than ‘firsts’. I think he makes a decent argument. But I’d rather see a more in-depth discussion from naval historians.