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Commerce was an important value that it provided to the US. That ranks second to the ability to rapidly transfer Naval power from one ocean to the other in response to any threat. The US was a two ocean Navy for many years, but the Canal almost doubled the ability to concentrate Military Power onto a global platform at will.
