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PERSPECTIVE: Maritime Chokepoints and the Geometry of Global Power

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (52+ words) In 480 BCE, a Greek force of'perhaps seven'thousand men,'among them three hundred Spartans under King Leonidas,'held the'multitudes of the'Persian army of Xerxes I at the coastal pass of Thermopylae for three days. Stripped of mythology, Thermopylae endures for one…...