In the struggle for sea power sam willis traces every key military event in the path to american independence from a naval perspective and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic political and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the revolution in doing so willis offers valuable new insights into american british french spanish dutch and russian history. The struggle for sea power a naval history of the american revolution by sam willis norton 2015 willis has a provocative fascinating perspective that control of the seas and waterways around and within the colonies was at least as important as the land campaigns. In the struggle for sea power sam willis traces every key military event in the path to american independence from a naval perspective and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic political and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the revolution in doing so willis offers valuable new insights into american british french spanish dutch and russian history. In the struggle for sea power sam willis traces every key military event in the path to american independence from a naval perspective and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic political and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the revolution. The struggle for sea power is a book not only about the american revolution but about the birth of the us navy thankfully it is not a book that glorifies war but one that takes on the full