And the British navy now has more Admirals than ships.
So.
Much of the training of military leaders for a hundred years or more has focused on MacKinder, not Mahan. England’s “ Great Game” now continued.
Look at the strategic positioning of western military bases to encircle the Eurasian landmass and contain the Heartland. Which the Russian-Chinese-Iran strategic partnership threatens to break out via the One Belt project.
The Eurasian land mass is a fiction, strategically and economically.
Look at markets, rather. Everyone there depends on access to foreign markets. What are those markets, and how are they going to get to them?
China has so far failed to generate enough domestic demand to sustain its industries.
And the British are a cherry-picked case.
Why not consider the Japanese?
Or better, consider all the US allied fleets.