top 5 Naval Powers by Decade

y-axis is percentage of total world naval power. only the top 5 are shown each year

original paper at

Click to access Crisher-Souva%20-%20Power%20At%20Sea%20v2.0%20full.pdf

Yes, I know that this probably should have been a stacked bar chart, but it was impossible to follow. And that a nation’s navy doesn’t actually disappear if it doesn’t make the top 5 (i.e. Germany in 1940…)

via
http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/10/23/how-strong-is-the-u-s-navy-really/
and
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/how-strong-american-navy?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter