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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: ships and sail away. Such a performance is attended with less
difficulty than that experienced by the relieving force on land.[4]
Again, it is open to a power so dominating by sea to leave its own
territory and sail off on as long a voyage as you please. Whereas the
land power cannot place more than a few days' journey between itself
and its own territory, for marches are slow affairs; and it is not
possible for an army on the march to have food supplies to last for
any great length of time. Such an army must either march through
friendly territory or it must force a way by victory in battle. The
voyager meanwhile has it in his power to disembark at any point where
he finds himself in superior force, or, at the worst, to coast by
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