Logistics arguments need more than a slogan

Eighteenth-century naval advocates had to persuade merchants and other financial supporters that a fleet justified its cost. Mahan later developed an extended case for sea power in books, while modern advocates often have only a page of bullet points to explain interconnected requirements. Mercogliano uses hurricane recovery as a civilian analogy: losing the support that normally restores electricity forces households to find substitutes. He then criticizes reliance on established insurers to enforce Russia's oil price cap, arguing that alternative insurance and a parallel tanker fleet were predictable adaptations.